Responsa for Sanhedrin 63:13

וליטעמיך תיקשי לך מתני' שטרי חוב המוקדמין פסולים והמאוחרים כשרין ואי סלקא דעתך בעינן דרישה וחקירה מאוחרין אמאי כשרין

is no difficulty, for a more powerful objection is raised,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In the Baraitha quoted. ');">²⁴</span> viz., that even in the case of a bond dated the first of Nisan in the Sabbatical year, when people, as a rule, do not transact loans, and when, consequently, we cannot [plausibly] say that the writing [of the bond] might have been postponed, since no one would intentionally weaken the validity of his document:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' By dating it some time in the Sabbatical year, when the debt is threatened with annulment, and so inevitably arousing the suspicion of forgery. ');">²⁵</span>

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