<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Eli Turkel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eliturkel@gmail.com">eliturkel@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I need help understanding prozbul. It is based on handing over the<br>
loan to bet din.<br>
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1. It works because Shemitta is nowadays only derabban<br>
2. It works because loans through a bet din are not cancelled.</blockquote><div><br>Do you have any source for #1? I mean this in both senses - who says that Shemitas Kesafim bizman hazeh is d'rabbanan, and who says that prozbul only works because it's d'rabbanan? I was under the impression that it's d'oraysa, and that it applies nonetheless.<br>
<br>The Chofetz Chaim lists Shemitas Kesafim in Sefer Hamitzvos Hakatzar as being applicable today, which seems to indicate that he holds it's d'oraysa bizman hazeh.<br><br>KT,<br>Michael</div></div></div>