[Avodah] Bankruptcy/Shemitah
Zev Sero
zev at sero.name
Wed Mar 22 17:56:03 PDT 2023
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
zev at sero.name and when to reap, we should soon want bread.”
–Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, 1821.
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