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If I loan a neighbor a bottle of milk, must I be concerned that when he returns another bottle of milk it may contain slightly more milk than I loaned him, and thus constitutes ribbis? (All bottles of milk will not necessarily contain precisely the same amount of milk even if it is the labeled as the same size.)
is this the same neighbor from the diaper story?
Chein: Some people worry about this. Others assume that people know the laws of Ribbis and that you are estimating anyway and are Mochel any tiny extra that you receive or any tiny extra less that they give back. Some people still are Chosheish about this though. Both are valid approaches. No one in this forum can tell you either way Lema’aseh.
I heard that Rabbi Welcher is very strict in this area.
It is glatt mutar to lend to a guy with tons and tons and tons of interest!!!!
chein: the issue is not the discrepancy in the quantity of milk, it is that the value of a quart of milk fluctuates and you may be returning more value than you received. The Poskim call this malve sa’ah b’sa’ah. Under certain circumstances, likely to apply in this case, it is permitted.
Chein: Hello is completely correct in theory. The only thing that matters is the value of the borrowed item. In most places nowadays, the price of something like milk will not fluctuate, at least not within a short period of time. So then the only concern is the amount that you give back.
I find Klach’s post very offensive even if it’s a joke, ribbis is one of the most chumerdig issurim and should not be joked about.
(in fact any part of torah should not be joke about in this manner)
Yeshivahman: I would guess he meant Goy, not guy.
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