613 Mitzvot
Business Practices
- Not to do wrong in buying or selling (Lev. 25:14)
- Not to make a loan to an Israelite on interest (Lev. 25:37)
- Not to borrow on interest (Deut. 23:20) (because this would cause the
lender to sin)
- Not to take part in any usurious transaction between borrower and lender,
neither as a surety, nor as a witness, nor as a writer of the bond for them
(Ex. 22:24)
- To lend to a poor person (Ex. 22:24) (even though the passage says "if you
lend" it is understood as obligatory)
- Not to demand from a poor man repayment of his debt, when the creditor
knows that he cannot pay, nor press him (Ex. 22:24)
- Not to take in pledge utensils used in preparing food (Deut. 24:6)
- Not to exact a pledge from a debtor by force (Deut. 24:10)
- Not to keep the pledge from its owner at the time when he needs it (Deut.
24:12)
- To return a pledge to its owner (Deut. 24:13)
- Not to take a pledge from a widow (Deut. 24:17)
- Not to commit fraud in measuring (Lev. 19:35)
- To ensure that scales and weights are correct (Lev. 19:36) (affirmative).
- Not to possess inaccurate measures and weights (Deut. 25:13-14)
