• The Prozbul (Hebrew: פרוזבול, borrowed from Koinē Greek: προσβολή) was established in the waning years of the Second Temple of Jerusalem by Hillel the...
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    decrees handed down in his name. The most famous of his enactments was the Prozbul, an institution that, in spite of the law concerning cancellation of debts...
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    of Hanukkah, to bypassing the Biblical ban on charging interest via the Prozbul, and up to the 1950 marital rules standardized by the Chief Rabbinate of...
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  • introduced by Hillel had Greek names, most famously the Talmudic notion of Prozbul, from Koine Greek προσβολή, "to deliver": Unlike literary Hebrew, popular...
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  • were forgiven) Yovel ("Jubilee" year at end of seven agricultural cycles) Prozbul (a Jewish writ making loans ineligible for cancellation) "Ezekiel 18:13"...
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  • without a formal oath. (4:3) Witnesses must sign the divorce document. (4:3) Prozbul was instituted. (4:3) If an enslaver set aside an enslaved person as a...
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    that enabled the bypassing of prohibitions in the Pentateuch, like the Prozbul or Heter I'ska. In 1948, when employing those was first debated, Rabbi...
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    established to allow a creditor to reclaim a debt after the Sabbatical year (Prozbul). The laws are derived from the Torah in Exodus 23:10–11, Leviticus 25:1–7...
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  • remitted. Around the beginning of the 1st century CE Hillel established the prozbul loophole which enabled lenders to offer loans which could not be remitted...
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    debts applies only to debts between Jews, to develop a device known as prozbul in which the debt is transferred to a beth din. When owed to the court...
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