[Avodah] Bankruptcy/Shemitah

[Zev Sero]

On 22/3/23 13:55, Joseph Kaplan via Avodah wrote:
> I wonder what Rav Schwab told borrowers, who had no pruzbul with
> their lenders, and whose debts were wiped out in shmittah. Did he
> tell them to pay the debt anyway if they had the money? Note: This is
> not a rhetorical question.I don’t know the answer, I can imagine
> different possibilities, so I’d really like to know what he told
> them.
Actually he likely did.  It is proper to offer to pay such a debt, and 
to repeat the offer when the creditor says, as he is required to, that 
it was discharged by shemitah.  Sheviis 10:9


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Zev Sero            “Were we directed from Washington when to sow
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