Chapter 5, Mishna1
Topics covered:
Can a Jew ever lend with interest?
What is difference between interest (neshech) and increase (tarbit)?
When can there be neshech without tarbit? Vice versa?
Why does Torah include both words?
Is law different for loan of food versus loan of money?
Is charging interest exploitation?
What can we infer from prohibition of lending at interest?
What is notable about interest? Exploitation?
Why do we need prohibitions that seem superfluous, i.e. robbery, fraudulent weights?
Why are certain laws in the Torah followed by “Because I am the Lord your God who took you out of Egypt?”
What is relevance of repulsion to eating creeping things?
Opening song: Moshe Storch leads Hallel at Beis Medrash Hancock Park
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