Guaranteed Low Prices and Interest: Difference between revisions
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# A Jewish journal or magazine which offers a discount for those who purchase a subscription in advance should present it as the price for a year or half a year and not that it is the price for paying in advance. A newspaper which uses the money for investments should offer the subscriptions with a heter iska.<ref>Malveh Hashem 1:9:40</ref> | # A Jewish journal or magazine which offers a discount for those who purchase a subscription in advance should present it as the price for a year or half a year and not that it is the price for paying in advance. A newspaper which uses the money for investments should offer the subscriptions with a heter iska.<ref>Malveh Hashem 1:9:40</ref> | ||
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#If someone set up a transaction with interest, such as a sale with a later paying that included interest, the sale is valid in a way that doesn't require the payment of interest. This only applies if they did a formal kinyan. | #If someone set up a transaction with interest, such as a sale with a later paying that included interest, the sale is valid in a way that doesn't require the payment of interest. This only applies if they did a formal kinyan. If there was no kinyan and it was only establish verbally then it is voided if it includes interest.<reF>Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 175:8. Rosh Bava Metsia 5:19 quotes Rav Hai Goan to say that if one made a sale with ribbit the sale is valid; just one doesn't have to pay the ribbit. | ||
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