[Avodah] Pruzbul and Ribit

[Joshua Meisner]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Chanoch (Ken) Bloom <kbloom at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> 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?


Is it a gift?  My impression was that the borrower is returning the loan
itself, and that the only issur inherent within shmittas kesafim is for the
lender to demand the collection of the loan (n'gisah), not to receive it.

- Josh
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