Loans; Credit; Debt

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

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.

Our entire existence is on loan from G-d. The question is, can we make the divine loan into a divine investment?

This class presents the Talmudic perspective on inheritance, detailing the types of properties eligible to bequeath and how they should be divided. Learn the level of responsibility inheriting children have towards their father’s debt.

Marriage, loans and the holiday of Sukkot, and the unlikely link between the three, in light of a textual addition to a manuscript draft of Mishneh Torah in the author's own hand.

Tractate Bava Basra concludes with a discussion of which type of guarantor must make an official "kinyan" obligating himself at the time of the loan. In this class, we will analyze a dispute between the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds plus the deeper, sp...

Hashem looks out for us when we look out for each other. Learn a deeper reading of the overarching theme of tractate Bava Basra.

Is Jewish connection different in Israel? Explore Talmudic law on a guarantor for a loan.

The Sages instituted a special enactment to facilitate lending, and simultaneously they protected the conflicting interests of other parties and values.