• subject of loans and interest in Judaism has a long and complex history. In the Hebrew Bible, the Book of Ezekiel classifies the charging of interest among...
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    as loan covenants. Although this article focuses on monetary loans, in practice, any material object might be lent. Acting as a provider of loans is one...
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  • Ribbit (film), a 2014 animated film The charging of forbidden loans and interest in Judaism All pages with titles beginning with Ribbit All pages with titles...
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    own currency) can influence interest rates and thus the supply and demand for such loans, thus altering the total of loans and bonds issued. Generally speaking...
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    outlawed loans with any interest. Though the Roman Empire eventually allowed loans with carefully restricted interest rates, the Catholic Church in medieval...
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  • Choshen Mishpat (category Judaism book stubs)
    of Jewish law pertinent to finance, torts, legal procedure and loans and interest in Judaism. Later, Rabbi Yosef Karo modeled the framework of his own...
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    Riba (category Interest)
    riba not as interest on all loans, but only "exploitive" loans, including: Loans for consumption not investment: investment loan interest is allowed,...
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  • Bava Metzia (category Jewish courts and civil law)
    are all guilty of having broken the law concerning interest" (5:11). See Loans and interest in Judaism. A paid trustee is liable to pay for all losses except...
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    Qard al-Hasan (category Loans)
    prohibit Muslims from charging interest on business loans, Farooq notes that the verses "specify no detail whatsoever in regard to conditions or limitations...
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  • between Judaism and politics is a historically complex subject, and has evolved over time concurrently with both changes within Jewish society and religious...
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    Debt (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
    regarding the amount and timing of repayments of principal and interest. Loans, bonds, notes, and mortgages are all types of debt. In financial accounting...
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    Lombard banking (category Banking in Italy)
    loans. Pawn shops thus could operate on the basis of a contract that fixes in advance the "fine" for not respecting the nominal term of the "interest...
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    interest paid on all loans of money (although some Muslims dispute whether there is a consensus that interest is equivalent to riba). Investment in businesses...
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    language in Israel. Ashkenazim adapted their traditions to Europe and underwent a transformation in their interpretation of Judaism. In the late 18th and 19th...
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    Tzedakah box (category Alms in Judaism)
    donations in Judaism. The earliest mention of a tzedakah box is in connection with the priest Jehoiada, who crafted a chest with a hole in its lid, positioning...
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    Tzedakah (redirect from Charity in Judaism)
    them in developing their talents and skills. Tzedakah (Tzedaka) refers to the religious obligation to do what is right and just, which Judaism emphasizes...
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    the opposite of Haskalah, Hasidic Judaism. Hasidic Judaism began in the 18th century by Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov, and quickly gained a following with...
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    from its formation in ancient times until the current age. Judaism itself is not simply a faith-based religion, but an orthoprax and ethnoreligion, pertaining...
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  • government loans or low-interest mortgages. Similarly to other groups of immigrant Jews who made aliyah to Israel, the Ethiopian Jews have faced obstacles in their...
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    Rothschild loans to the Holy See refers to a series of major financial loans arranged between the Rothschild family and the Holy See of the Catholic Church...
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    Ronald Perelman (category American chief executives in the media industry)
    Perelman in 1989. By the end of 1989, MacAndrews refinanced the Holding companies' junk bonds for standard bank loans. The bulk of New World's film and home...
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    grain loans to farmers and traders who carried goods between cities. This was around 2000 BCE in Assyria, India and Sumer. Later, in ancient Greece and during...
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    Shyne (category Converts to Orthodox Judaism)
    crime, and for the government to provide student loans at low interest rates. Shyne was subsequently also appointed the Opposition Leader in the House...
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    there is an interest by some Jewish groups working in Spain to encourage the descendants of Conversos to return to Judaism. This has resulted in a limited...
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  • Nelson Peltz (category Private equity and venture capital investors)
    bankrupt and the lender asked Peltz to salvage their outstanding loan. Within a year, the loans were repaid as Peltz rebuilt the business. In the 1980s...
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  • Kabbalistic schools/authors in Hasidism are included here. In the Sabbatean mystical heresy that broke away from Judaism, only the founders are listed...
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    Judaeo-Spanish (category Articles lacking in-text citations from March 2024)
    of the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki, the cultural center of Sephardic Judaism after the expulsion from Spain, Ladino is not spoken, rather, it is the...
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    millennium, and practiced a non-Talmudic form of Judaism that is similar in some respects to Karaite Judaism. The religious practices of Israeli Beta Israel...
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    participated in retail and manufacturing and in the export industry. Their religious beliefs spanned the range from Orthodox Hasidic Judaism to Liberal Judaism. The...
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    Talmud (redirect from Talmud and Midrash)
    text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law (halakha) and Jewish theology. Until the advent of modernity, in nearly all Jewish...
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