Talk:Prozbul

A fact from Prozbul appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 May 2007. The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that the Judaic legal fiction of Prozbul protects both the poor and wealthy from the effects of the Sabbatical Year? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/May.

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The article only briefly defines the term

• The writ, issued historically by rabbis, technically changed the status of individual private loans into the public administration, allowing the poor to receive interest-free loans before the Sabbatical year while protecting the investments of the lenders.

and then goes into much, much detail on the response to the concept. The definition, though, isn't enough for an average layperson like me to understand. Did a rabbi simply sign a document proclaiming the loan not to be a loan? Could someone knowledgeable expand the section some?

69.232.205.63 (talk) 22:07, 30 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]