Chapter 6, Mishna 1Topics covered:What is relevance of artisanal laborers reneging before performing task?What if employer reneges?Who is at more disadvantage, employer or employee who reneges?What if employer hires laborer to work field but laborer works the wrong field?If middleman …

Chapter 5, Mishna 9, 10, 11Topics covered:What are terms of renting out or lending field to sharecropper?What is the difference between making an agreement before sharecropper started work or after?What is relevance of the sharecropper bringing his own seed?When is …

Chapter 5, Mishna 8Topics covered:How long is rental period associated with an unspecified mortgage?Can two Jews be linked in an interest bearing transaction through a gentile?If seller assumes risk that wine barrel will spoil, is that problematic re: interest?Can seller …

Chapter 5, Mishna 7, 8Topics covered:What if gentile takes out loan with interest but then becomes Jewish before loan is paid off?Why can’t there there be an antedated promissory note?Can there be a postdated promissory note?When can liened property be …

Chapter 5, Mishna 7Topics covered:When faced with a choice of lending to a jew, a Gentile, a poor person, who takes precedence?What is the connection between lending at interest and atheism?What is a Hebrew slave?Can a Hebrew slave become a …

Chapter 5, Mishna 6, 7Topics covered:When is loan given by one partner to the other for business expenses problematic?When can one inflate the rental fee paid for his field? When can’t he?When is owner/renter relationship considered an investment partnership?What about …

Chapter 5, Mishna 5Topics covered:What is iska? Why does it violate prohibition on interest? How do we make it lawful?What is capital in an iska enterprise, and what is loan?When are storekeeper’s services considered interest on investment?Can someone put chicken …

Chapter 5, Mishna 4Topics covered:If seller sold field to relative but was reluctant, is that a valid sale?If there was no deal and money changed hands, is it a loan? Who owns produce grown in interim?Who consumes produce of field …

Chapter 5, Mishna 4Topics covered:Is uncertain interest permitted or not?How can it be called “a loan with interest” if the interest will never be paid?What if one borrows money using field as collateral for other loan and then sells field?If …