Perek 10: Shemittah of money
at the year's end, loans are released
Release loans — and keep lending
Devarim 15:1–11
Don't hold back a loan as Shemittah nears
A loan by word — or by document
Shibud nechasim: a document reaches even sold property
And credit: a shop tab · a worker's wage
Permissivecancels
Shemittah releases a loan — with a document or without
→ released, at the end of the year
A shop tab?
Tanna KammaNot canceled; totaled up and billed as a loan — canceled→ not released — until it is billed as a loan
Rabbi YehudaEach earlier balance is canceled — every new purchase turns the previous ones into a loan; only the latest stands→ each new purchase makes the earlier ones a loan
Tosefta: written in money — a loan; in goods — not
A worker's wage?
Tanna KammaNot canceled; billed as a loan — canceled→ not released — until it is billed as a loan
Rabbi YossiWork Sheviis halts, like field labor — canceled; work that carries on regardless — not canceled→ work Shemittah stops is released; other work is not
Sheviis 10:1
Which Debts Shemittas Kesafim Cancels
שְׁמִטַּת כְּסָפִים
שְׁבִיעִית, מְשַׁמֶּטֶת אֶת הַמִּלְוָה בִּשְׁטָר וְשֶׁלֹּא בִשְׁטָר.
הַקָּפַת הַחֲנוּת, אֵינָהּ מְשַׁמֶּטֶת,
וְאִם עֲשָׂאָהּ מִלְוָה, הֲרֵי זֶה מְשַׁמֵּט.
רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר, הָרִאשׁוֹן הָרִאשׁוֹן מְשַׁמֵּט.
שְׂכַר שָׂכִיר, אֵינוֹ מְשַׁמֵּט,
וְאִם עֲשָׂאוֹ מִלְוָה, הֲרֵי זֶה מְשַׁמֵּט.
רַבִּי יוֹסֵי אוֹמֵר,
כָּל מְלָאכָה שֶׁפּוֹסֶקֶת בַּשְּׁבִיעִית, מְשַׁמֶּטֶת,
וְשֶׁאֵינָהּ פּוֹסֶקֶת בַּשְּׁבִיעִית, אֵינָהּ מְשַׁמֶּטֶת: