[Avodah] Haarama

[Michael Makovi]

> Question. Where would pruzbol fit into this classification scheme?  Are
> there any other classification schemes?  There are other obvious interesting
> implications this year but I'd rather stick to the classification issue for
> now.
>
> KT
> Joel Rich

I'll say the "intrinsically bad" category, but with an asterisk:

In an ideal world, we wouldn't have prozbul; the rich would lend to
the poor without fear of the impending shemitta.

But, in the world in which we live, the rich were going to avoid
lending (breaking the lav of not helping the poor) or lend but not
remit (breaking that lav), and the poor were going to go, well, poor.
So Hillel made a bedieved work around to solve everyone's problems.
But ideally, we wouldn't have this, so maybe it falls into the
negative category, but with an eit la'asot lashem sort of asterisk.

Mikha'el Makovi