Pisqa’ 113³¹²

1. “You may dun the foreigner” (Dt. 15:3)— this is a prescriptive commandment.

footnotes: ³¹² H:160; JN1:286.

“But that which is due you from your brother’s hand, you must release” (Dt. 15:3)— but not that of your brother’s which is in your hand. On this basis you say: one who extends a loan on the basis of collateral— [the loan] is not released [in the Sabbatical year]. ³¹³

footnotes: ³¹³ //T. Shev. 8:5.

“From your brother’s hand, you must release” (Dt. 15:3)— **but not one who deposits his bills of indebtedness with the court.**³¹⁴ On this basis they taught: Hillel established the prozbul³¹⁵ 113= M. Shev.10:3-4. for the sake of an orderly world. When he saw that people refrained from lending to each other [since the Release-year cancelled all debts,] thereby transgressing what is written in the Torah (Dt. 15:9)— he rose up and established the prozbul.

I hereby transmit to you, O judges So-and-so and So-and-so, who are in Such-and-such a place, all the debts due me, so that I might collect them whenever I wish. And the judges sign at the bottom— **or the witnesses.**³¹⁶

footnotes: ³¹⁴ //M. Shev.10:2. ³¹⁵ =M. Git. 4:3. The remainder of Pisqa’ ³¹⁶ =M. Shev. 10:3-4.