Sheviis 10:1 - 10:2

שביעית משמטת את המלוה – A person who loans his fellow and the Seventh Yeaer passed upon him after the loan [was made], he cannot claim [repayment of] his loan from his fellow, as it is written (Deuteronomy 15:2): “every creditor shall remit the due that he claims from his fellow.”

בשטר – that he wrote for him a document [for which] an obligation for which property is pledged and he mortgaged land upon the lender that looks like he who deposits as surety lands with him, nevertheless, the Seventh Year cancels it (i.e., the loan).

שקנה ממנו באמנה – that he bought from him in good faith.

ואם עשאה מלוה – that he intended [this] with the purchaser and the creditor settles the interests on the debtor as a loan (the note stating the combined amount of principal and interest as principal).

הראשון משמט – if he purchased it in good faith the first time from the hstore, and he retracted and purchased it a second time, the first [purchase] is made into a loan and is cancelled, but not the second. If he retracted and purchased it a third time, the first and second are made into a loan and the Seventh Year cancels them, but not the third, and such is the case always. The last one (i.e. purchase), the Seventh Year does not cancel and all the others, the Seventh Year cancels them, for since it was appropriate for that he should give him the money of the first one prior to his purchasing the second debts for merchandise payable at certain seasons and he did not give it, the first one becomes a loan, and similarly at all times. But the Halalkha is not like Rabbi Yehuda.

כל מלאכה שפוסקת בשביעית – if he hired this man from labors that stop in the Seventh Year, meaning to say, from labors that are forbidden to perform them in the Seventh Year such as plowing and reaping and working the land, this salary is made like a loan in the Seventh Year, and the Seventh Year cancels it, and if not, that this payment that he is obliged to him was from the rest of the labors that are not forbidden in the Seventh Year, it is not made like a loan and the Seventh Year does not cancel it. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yossi.

השוחט את הפרה – in the Seventh Year, and divided it [among the purchasers] on the first day of the two days of the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, if Elul was intercalated [by addin to it an additional day – thirty days], it is found that the first day that it (i.e., the cow) was divided, it was a weekday, and it was the last day of Elul of the Seventh Year, and the Seventh Year cancels [a debt] at its end, as it is written (Deuteronomy 15:1): “Every seventh year (literally, at the end of Seven Years) you shall practice remission of debts.”

האונס והמפתה (see Deuteronomy 22:19) , that they give fifty Shekel [as a fine].

והמוציא שם רע – that gives one hundred.[Shekel].

וכל מעשה בית דן – money that they wrote upon it a religious decision, you are obligated to give it to him.

אין משמיטין – for since the Jewish court that made a religious decision regarding the money [is considered] as collected, and as if it reached his hand.

המלוה על המשכון – as it is written (Deuteronomy 15:3): “but you must remit whatever is due you” except for that “whatever is due you from your kinsman.”

והמוסר שטרותיו לב"ד – as it is written: “[but you must remit] whatever is due you from your kinsmen,” except for someone who hands over his bonds to a court [for collection] since the Jewish court has the obligation towards his brother.