Tag: metzia

When it comes to the payment of debts, halacha, like other systems of law, struggles with two competing concerns.

The freedom to quit a job in the middle, like the exercise of all freedom, may need to be restrained to the extent that it hurts innocent people.

The length of the advance eviction notice required by the halacha depends on the season in which the eviction occurs and the location of the premises.

The loan portion of the capital is not at risk because, under the terms of the heter iska, Mamon will get it back whether the business prospers or fails.

Ribbit is defined in the Talmud as agar natar, which means any compensation, whether in money or in kind, a Jew receives from a fellow Jew for having to wait for payment.

In thirty-six different places the Torah warns us to be kind to people who have converted to Judaism.

The right to a refund or to the return of the purchase price or the item, as the case may be, is subject to a time limit.

What incentive does the seller have to salvage the object from fire if, at the end of the day, the loss is for the buyer?