Responsa for Yevamot 227:10
גדול בעי אומדנא קטן נמי ליבעי אומדנא אמר רב הונא בריה דרב יהושע סתם תינוק מסוכן אצל חלב:
though this is forbidden to an adult.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The milk of an unclean beast is for adults Pentateuchally forbidden. Cf. Bek. 6b. ');"><sup>41</sup></span> Abba Saul stated: It was our practice to suck from a clean beast on a festival.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' When the restrictions on work are not as rigid as those of the Sabbath. ');"><sup>42</sup></span> At any rate it was here stated that 'there is no need to have scruples about his sucking from a detestable thing'!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Though he is eating a Pentateuchally forbidden food (v. supra n. 6 and cf. supra p. 802, n. 4)! ');"><sup>43</sup></span> — [The permissibility] there is due to [the presence of] danger.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Without food the child's life is endangered. ');"><sup>44</sup></span> If so, an adult also [should be permitted]!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' When life is in danger any religious law may be infringed. ');"><sup>45</sup></span>
Teshuvot Maharam
SOURCES: L. 140.
Teshuvot Maharam
A. Lending charity-funds on condition that the lender share in the profits but not in the losses, is forbidden. The Rabbis who said (B. M. 70a) that a person lending money on such a condition is called "wicked" made no distinction between rich and poor. Since a poor person is not permitted to lend his money on condition that he share in the profits but not in the losses, we are not permitted to do so for him.
Teshuvot Maharam
A. Lending charity-funds on condition that the lender share in the profits but not in the losses, is forbidden. The Rabbis who said (B. M. 70a) that a person lending money on such a condition is called "wicked" made no distinction between rich and poor. Since a poor person is not permitted to lend his money on condition that he share in the profits but not in the losses, we are not permitted to do so for him.
Note: The following introduction precedes the answer: Please excuse me for the brief response. For the last two weeks I have been confined to bed and have lost the taste for food. I wrote to you a lengthy response regarding the lending of charity-funds, and sent it to you through a messenger named Marvel. I forgot the lengthy argument and discussion. I remember, however, to have agreed with your reasons and arguments, and to have added the following ….
SOURCES: L. 425; P. 476. Cf. Agudah B.M. 73.