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it is day number 303 of our daily study
ofz and in the three chapters today's
study track of mish we are finally
finishing with chapters 25 26 and 27
it's been many days we're studying about
loans we have one Mitzvah today and it
is our final Mitzvah on this subject of
loans it is positive commandment 198 and
I'll read to you from the scriptural
verse which the Mitzvah is based
according to the ra it
is Deuteronomy 23 21 I'll read the
Hebrew the original scriptural
words to The Foreigner you should charge
interest to your brother Le sash you
should not charge interest now in the
past we have referred to that verse to
give us a source for the prohibition
against one Jew charging another Jew
interest uh when when he gives Al loone
which is a positive Comm it's a positive
commandment to give your fellow je a
loone and then a negative command
prohibition against char in interest and
as I mentioned this is really really
really above and beyond this is not
normal behavior nobody expects that you
can just ask somebody for an interest
free loan that's not the normal way and
yet when it comes to loans the Torah
says that a Jew should treat his fellow
like like a brother and maybe even
closer than a brother because I know a
lot of brothers who wouldn't give each
other interest free loans okay when the
verse
says to The Foreigner to the non-jew you
should charge
interest the way that many biblical
commentaries explain that is that it's
just a contrast to the to to the the
mits that you have not to charge your
fellow Jew uh interest on Al loan that
Alum says and this is positive command
198 that it's actually a Mitzvah to
charge interest for the loan to a
non-jew he says it's a Mitzvah that you
must do it you have to charge something
doesn't have to be exorbitant but there
should be some
charge um most notably the ran you know
we have the rambam and we have the
ran the rambam is
Rao and then you have the ran mman who
was after the rambam and is also one of
the great Scholars of that era and
because he followed the rambam he often
comments on the rambam and agrees or
disagrees or uh fills in more
understanding of what the ramam said the
ran says that he doesn't understand why
the Raam is saying that this is a
Mitzvah like it's permissible to charge
an nonu interest but to say that you you
should you should do it you must do it
he doesn't understand the riv it as well
who is probably the the primary
commentary on the raama also says I
don't know where he's getting this from
there's a famous letter to the ra son
where somebody's asking why did your
father say this is a Mitzvah and in fact
he this letter quotes the talmud saying
the talmud says that although you're
allowed to charge on you interest it's
discouraged because they didn't want
that people should get into money
lending as a as a way of life
so you have a question and um many of
the Great rabbis disagree with the ramam
but this is what the ramam says that's
our mitzvah for today and we will see
you tomorrow with a new set of
alas in saer Mish the book of judgment
uh God
willing
