[Avodah] Pruzbul and Ribit

[Chanoch (Ken) Bloom]

If a borrower comes to pay back a loan after the shemita has passed, and
the lender doesn't have a prozbul, then the lender has to tell him
that shemitta has cancelled the loan, and he doesn't owe anything. If
the borrower wants to pay anyway, he says "nevertheless, I wish to
give the money to you as a gift," and the lender can accept.

For the borrower to give a gift (or any other kind of additional
positive consideration) to a lender as the result of a loan is
forbidden because of ribit, so how is paying back a loan that has been
cancelled by shemitta not forbidden because of ribit?

--Chanoch

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Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/
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