Lending

Source: Halachipedia: Lending

Link: 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

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