Loans; Credit; Debt

Giving loans is considered a greater mitzvah than the mitzvah of giving charity because it is less embarrassing for a needy person to take a loan than to receive charity.

Learn the fundamental principles and basic process for debt collection of loans.

A friend of mine who is known to burn money and not repay loans is continuously asking me for a loan. I have heard that one should always give a loan when asked. Should I be giving him a loan?

Question: I am owed money by Jews for goods and services provided over the past few months on credit. I expected all of the outstanding invoices to have been paid by Rosh Hashanah, but it’s beginning to look like some will not be paid by then. I did not l...

A person must be given the ability to have a new start, because it is virtually impossible to put together the broken pieces of what was hitherto a mismanaged financial ledger while burdened by unbearable debt. The same is true in a spiritual sense...

Rabbi Shmuel was very careful in keeping the accounts of the free-loan fund, marking every transaction carefully in his books...

How deep does our responsibility for our fellow Jew go? Explore some Talmudic law on guaranteeing a loan for deeper insight into our obligation to one another.

How deep does our responsibility for our fellow Jew go? Explore some Talmudic law on guaranteeing a loan for deeper insight into our obligation to one another. (Based on Likutei Sichos vol. 26, Mishpatim sicha 1)

Wouldn’t this commandment make people hesitant to lend, knowing that the debtor could just run out the clock?