<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Chanoch (Ken) Bloom <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kbloom@gmail.com" target="_blank">kbloom@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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For the borrower to give a gift (or any other kind of additional<br>
positive consideration) to a lender as the result of a loan is<br>
forbidden because of ribit, so how is paying back a loan that has been<br>
cancelled by shemitta not forbidden because of ribit?</blockquote></div><br>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. <br>
<br>- Josh</div>