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The Talmud asks: You may become a guarantor for whom? If we say it means a guarantor for a Jew who lends money to another Jew with interest, that is difficult. But this would be contradicted by that which A baraita states in a Mishnah (75b): These are the ones who transgress a prohibition: The lende
Rather, it must mean that one may serve as a guarantor for a non-Jew who lends to another Jew with interest. This is also difficult, since the law of the non-Jews is that he goes after the guarantor to collect the money without trying to collect first from the borrower. Under non-Jew law, it is the
Rav Sheshet said: The case is that the non-Jew accepted upon himself to have this transaction judged by the laws of the Jews, so that he may not claim repayment from the guarantor. The Talmud asks: If the non-Jew accepted upon himself to have this transaction judged by the laws of the Jews, he sho
§ The Mishnah teaches: A Jew may serve as a middleman and lend a non-Jew’s money to another Jew with the knowledge of the non-Jew, but not with the knowledge of a Jew, i.e., the middleman himself. A baraita states: A Jew may lend a non-Jew’s money as a middleman to another Jew with the knowledge of
The baraita continues: And similarly, if a non-Jew borrowed money with interest from a Jew and then wanted to return it to him, and another Jew found the non-Jew and said to him: Give it to me and I will pay you interest in the same way that you pay the Jewish lender, this is permitted, since he p