The Prozbul (Hebrew: פרוזבול, borrowed from Koinē Greek: προσβολή)[1] was established in the waning years of the Second Temple of Jerusalem by Hillel the Elder. The writ, issued historically by rabbis, changed the status of individual private loans into the public administration, which made them ineligible for cancellation on the year of Shmita. This allowed the poor to receive interest-free loans before the Sabbatical year while protecting the investments of the lenders.
^Raphael Patai (December 2007). The Jewish Mind. Hatherleigh Press. p. 64. ISBN 978-1578262465.
The Prozbul (Hebrew: פרוזבול, borrowed from Koinē Greek: προσβολή) was established in the waning years of the Second Temple of Jerusalem by Hillel the...
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...
were forgiven) Yovel ("Jubilee" year at end of seven agricultural cycles) Prozbul (a Jewish writ making loans ineligible for cancellation) "Ezekiel 18:13"...
introduced by Hillel had Greek names, most famously the Talmudic notion of Prozbul, from Koine Greek προσβολή, "to deliver": Unlike literary Hebrew, popular...
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...
instituted the prozbul, a court exemption from the Sabbatical year cancellation of a loan. The Mishnah taught that any loan made with a prozbul is not canceled...
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...
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...
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...
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...
instituted the prozbul, a court exemption from the Sabbatical year cancellation of a loan. The Mishnah taught that any loan made with a prozbul is not canceled...
taken from an orphan was not canceled in the Sabbatical year, even if no prozbul had been made out for it. He stored his grain until prices had risen, in...
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