Study Bava Metzia folio 75B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
All the dry days during the summer, when it does not rain, are viewed as one period, meaning that if they each agreed to work one day, the dry days are viewed as though they were all exactly equal in length, despite the slight differences between them. Similarly, all the rainy days are treated as on
Rabban Gamliel says: There is a case of pre-paid interest, and there is also a case of interest paid later, both of which are prohibited. How so? If he had hopes of borrowing money from him in the future, and he sends him money or a gift and says: I am sending you this gift in order that you will
R' Shimon says: Not only is there interest consisting of payment of money or items, but there is also verbal interest. For example: the borrower may not say to the lender: You should know that so-and-so has come from such and such a place, when he is aware that this information is of significance
And these people violate a prohibition of interest: The lender, and the borrower, and the guarantor, and the witnesses. And the Rabbis say: Also the scribe who writes the promissory note violates this prohibition. These parties to the transaction violate different prohibtions. Some are in violation
Talmud: It is taught in a baraita that R' Shimon ben Yoḥai says: From where is it derived with regard to one who is owed 100 dinars by another, and the borrower is not accustomed to greeting that lender, that it is prohibited to start greeting him after being granted the loan? The verse states: “In