[Avodah] Prozbul

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

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

And RRWolberg asked:
> If the above is the case, then why did God legislate it to
> begin with? In other words, the prozbul could have been built
> into the torah.

My favorite answer to this is built on Rabbi Akiva's answer to Turnus Rufus: Hashem made the world in an incomplete condition, so that people could improve upon it. He gave us wheat, so that we could make it into bread. He gave men's bodies an orlah, so that it could be removed. And He gave us a Torah which is so perfect that it includes ideas and procedures for improving it with the addition of things like prozbul, muktzeh, brachos, and others.

Akiva Miller
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