Bordering on / Connected with the Prohibition of Usury / Element of Usury

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Bordering on / Connected with the Prohibition of Usury / Element of Usury

Bordering on / Connected with the Prohibition of Usury / Element of Usury

A form of interest. Payment of an additional amount resembling usury.

("Fixed interest from here onward is called the dust of usury. Rabbi Elazar said: fixed interest is enforceable in court, but the dust of usury is not." – Baba Metzia 61b)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

אֲבַק רִבִּית

Definition (Hebrew)

מֵעֵין רִבִּית. תַּשְׁלוּם סְכוּם נוֹסָף שֶׁדּוֹמֶה לְרִבִּית.

("רִבִּית קְצוּצָה מִכָּאן וְאֵילָךְ אֲבַק רִבִּית. א"ר אֶלְעָזָר: רִבִּית קְצוּצָה יוֹצֵאת בְּדַיָּנִין, אֲבַק רִבִּית אֵינָהּ יוֹצֵאת בְּדַיָּנִין" – בָּבָא מְצִיעָא סא ע"ב)

Keyword

Jewish law ethics trade expression usury additional payment Baba Metzia courts / judges

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