Commentary for Gittin 71:13

ומי איכא מידי דמדאורייתא משמטא שביעית והתקין הלל דלא משמטא אמר אביי בשביעית בזמן הזה ורבי היא

HILLEL INSTITUTED THE <i>PROSBUL</i>. We have learnt elsewhere: A <i>prosbul</i> prevents the remission of debts [in the Sabbatical year]. This is one of the regulations made by Hillel the Elder. For he saw that people were unwilling to lend money to one another and disregarded the precept laid down in the Torah, Beware that there he not a base thought in thine heart saying, etc.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XV, 9. The verse proceeds, The seventh year is at hand, and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother and give him nought. ');">¹²</span>

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