שביעית י׳:ה׳ - י׳:ו׳

פרוזבול המקדם – that its time is early, that it was written in Kislev and the its time that is written within it is from the previous Tishrei, it is Kasher/fit, because the prerogative of the lender is impaired in this, for a Prozbul does not profit other than to loans from before it, for when they are transferred to the Jewish court, they are cancelled, it is found that they cause loss in what that its time had been advanced, but a postdated Prozbul is invalid, for he made the time later amd the je the borrower between them, and when he produces this Prozbul and the the Jewish court sees the time, they think that the loans preceded the Prozbul and it is found that he collects unlawfully

שארי חוב המוקדמים פסולים – as for example, that it refers to Nisan and he wrote in the document the time of the previous Tishrei, they are invalid because he collects unlawfully from the mortgaged property between Tishrei and Nisan, and te Rabbis fine im, that he should not collect at all with this document from the mortgaged property, and even from Nisan and beyond, as a decree lest he collect from them unlawfully between Tishrei and Nisan. But however, the document is not invalid on account of the witnesses that affixed their signatures to it who were wicked who signed the antedated document falsely, for the witnesses would be able to state that that we affixed our names on the essence of the loan and not on the time, and we did not come to testify that it was written and signed on that day.

והמאוחרים כשרים – because the lender’s prerogative has been weakened, that he doesn’t seize the sold property other from the time that is written in the document.

כותבין פרוזבול לכל חד ואחד – for each and every loan it is necessary that he will transmit his documents to the Jewish court and it will write him a Prozbul, therefore, like when five [people] borrow from one [person], it doesn’t write other than one Prozbul, for there is only one lender here, and even though that there are many borrowers, that when the lender will have one Prozbul on everything that is enough.

אלא על הקרקע – unless the borrower has real-estate, for then, the liability is considered as collected in the hand of the Jewish court and we don’t don’t call him (Deuteronomy 15:2):”he shall not dun [his fellow or his kinsman].”

אם אין לו – if the borrower/debtor [lacks land], and the lender has [land], the creditor/lender transfers to him from his field a small piece and writes upon it a Prozbul, and even if the debt is one-hundred Maneh, because a small piece of land is worthy to collect through it all of his debt, as for example, regarding that he collects and then collects again until he completes all of his debt.

היתה לו – if the borrower/debtor had a mortgaged field in the city, whether others had mortgaged it to him or whether he mortgaged it [as a security] to others, they write a Prozbul.

כותבין לאיש על נכסי אשתו – such as the land of the wife’s estate of which the husband has the fruition [without responsibility for loss or deterioration].

על נכסי אפוארופין – that they lend for the needs of the orphans as the orphans have no property.