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...

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

I have done everything in my power to pay back my debts, but every time I make a little headway, something happens to plunge me into debt again.

Your friend gets to make her purchase and you get to rack up some points. Kosher?