When Is It Permitted to Benefit the Lender: Difference between revisions
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#It is forbidden to buy an honor in Shul for one's lender.<Ref>Shach 166:1</ref> | #It is forbidden to buy an honor in Shul for one's lender.<Ref>Shach 166:1</ref> | ||
===Favors, Kind Gestures, and Saying Thank You (Ribbit | ===Favors, Kind Gestures, and Saying Thank You (Ribbit Devarim)=== | ||
# It is forbidden to give any benefit to the lender even a nice word or greeting them with a simple word hello can be forbidden if a person didn’t usually say hello before the loan and one is doing it because of the loan.<ref>Gemara Bava Metsia 75b, Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 160:11</ref> This is called Ribbit Devarim and is a rabbinically forbidden form of ribbit.<ref>Chelkat Binyamin 160:95</ref> | # It is forbidden to give any benefit to the lender even a nice word or greeting them with a simple word hello can be forbidden if a person didn’t usually say hello before the loan and one is doing it because of the loan.<ref>Gemara Bava Metsia 75b, Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 160:11</ref> This is called Ribbit Devarim and is a rabbinically forbidden form of ribbit.<ref>Chelkat Binyamin 160:95</ref> | ||
#Ribbit Devarim only applies during the duration of the loan and not before or afterwards.<ref>Rabbenu Yerucham Meisharim 8:1, Meyuchas LRitva Bava Metsia 68b s.v. visura, Radvaz 3:1060, Chelket Binyamin 160:99 and 95 citing Ran Ketubot 46a, Sefer Hatrumot 3:13, Shulchan Aruch 160:10</ref> Some say that even after the loan is repaid it is forbidden to thank someone for a loan explicitly because of the loan; also it is forbidden to flatter someone to give you a loan before the loan begins.<reF>Horah Brurah on 160:11 citing Shulchan Aruch Harav 160:9</ref> | #Ribbit Devarim only applies during the duration of the loan and not before or afterwards.<ref>Rabbenu Yerucham Meisharim 8:1, Meyuchas LRitva Bava Metsia 68b s.v. visura, Radvaz 3:1060, Chelket Binyamin 160:99 and 95 citing Ran Ketubot 46a, Sefer Hatrumot 3:13, Shulchan Aruch 160:10</ref> Some say that even after the loan is repaid it is forbidden to thank someone for a loan explicitly because of the loan; also it is forbidden to flatter someone to give you a loan before the loan begins.<reF>Horah Brurah on 160:11 citing Shulchan Aruch Harav 160:9</ref> |