# Lending

Source: Halachipedia: Lending

Link: [https://halachipedia.com/index.php?title=Lending](https://halachipedia.com/index.php?title=Lending)

Categories: `Between Man And His Fellow`

Exported: 2025-12-30

1. It's a biblical mitzvah to lend to a Jew who is need of borrowing money¹ even if he is rich but doesn't have the money right now. Additionally it's a greater mitzvah than giving tzedaka because the receiver isn't embarrassed.²
2. There's a mitzvah to lend out objects that another Jew is in need of borrowing.³
3. The measure for this mitzvah is each person according to their abilities.⁴
4. It is permitted to ask someone to repay a loan unless they are extremely poor and can't pay it back even if they sold most of their property.⁵
## Related Pages
* Dissolving Loans during Shemittah (Shemitat Kesafim)
* Taking Interest
* [Being_Careful_With_Other_People%27s_Money](https://halachipedia.com/index.php?title=Being%20Careful%20With%20Other%20People%2527s%20Money#refusing-to-repay-a-loan)

## References

¹: Shemot 22:24

²: Ahavat Chesed (authored by the Chafetz Chaim) 1:1

³: Ahavat Chesed 1:2 explains that even though this doesn't fit into the category of the mitzvah to lend money but it certainly fulfills a mitzvah of chesed.

⁴: Ahavat Chesed 1:4

⁵: [din.co.il](http://din.org.il/2014/03/09/%D7%A9%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%94-%D7%97%D7%93%D7%A9%D7%94-%D7%9C%D7%90-%D7%AA%D7%94%D7%99%D7%94-%D7%9C%D7%95-%D7%9B%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%A9%D7%94/)