[Avodah] How does Prozbul work?

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 01:33:28PM +0300, Marty Bluke via Avodah wrote:
: In other words these things did not happen simultaneously, pruzbul was
: enacted after shemmitas kesafim was already established.

Perhaps we can say Hillel decided that the need of the poor to obtain
funds meant that we should settle for making a pruzbul as a way of keeping
alive the memory of shemittah deOraisa, rather than practicing the full
shemittah derabbanan as a "lezeikher".

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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