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to teach that one may lend money with interest to a ger toshav only to the extent required to provide a livelihood to the lender, but not to do so as a regular business.
Ravina said: Here in the Mishnah we are dealing with Torah scholars, for whom it is permitted to lend money to a non-Jew with interest. The Talmud explains: What is the reason the rabbis decreed that one should not lend money to a non-Jew with interest? The reason is that perhaps the Jew will learn
There are those who teach that which Rav Huna said in connection with that which Rav Yosef taught: The verse states: “If you lend money to any of My people, even to the poor person who is with you” (Exodus 22:24). The term “My people” teaches that if one of My people, i.e., a Jew, and a non-Jew bo
The Master said above: If one of My people and a non-Jew come to you for a loan, My people take precedence. The Talmud asks: Isn’t this obvious? Is there any reason to think that a non-Jew would take precedence over a Jew? Rav Naḥman said that Rav Huna said to me: It is necessary only to teach tha
It is taught in a baraita: R' Yosei says: Come and see the blindness in the eyes of those who lend money with interest. If a person calls another a wicked person in public, the other becomes insulted and he harasses him in all aspects of his life because he called him by this disgraceful name. But