Un uomo può chiedere al suo vicino (su Shabbath) brocche di vino e brocche di olio, purché non dica: "Prestami". [Per "un prestito" si connota "per lungo tempo", ed è stabilito che "un prestito", non qualificato, è per trenta giorni—così che il prestatore potesse venire a scrivere nel suo libro degli account (di sabato): "Ho prestato quell'uomo questo e questo", in modo che non dimentichi.] Allo stesso modo, una donna (può chiedere) pani al suo vicino. E se non si fida di lui, lascia il mantello con sé e fa una contabilità con lui dopo Shabbath. Allo stesso modo, alla vigilia di Pesach a Gerusalemme che cade su Shabbath, lascia il suo mantello con sé [se non si fida di lui] e prende la sua offerta di Pesach [e la dedica a Shabbath, poiché gli obblighi specifici del tempo possono essere dedicati a Shabbath .], e fa una contabilità con lui dopo il festival.
Bartenura on Mishnah Shabbat
שואל. ובלבד שלא יאמר הלוני – for it implies a loan for a long time and we hold that an undefined loan is for thirty days; therefore the lender comes to write on his writing tablet/merchant’s account book that I have loaned such-and-such to so-and-so in order that he would not forget it.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Shabbat
Introduction
This mishnah discusses borrowing food items on Shabbat with the intent of paying the person back after Shabbat.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Shabbat
מניח טליתו אצלו – if he (i.e., the lender) doesn’t believe him (i.e., the borrower) and he takes it and dedicates it as Temple property on the Sabbath for [loan[ obligations that have a fixed time [for return] one can dedicate [them] on the Sabbath (though we learn in Tractate Arakhin, Chapter 7, Mishnah 5, that one does not dedicate to the Temple something that is not his).
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English Explanation of Mishnah Shabbat
A man may borrow pitchers of wine and pitchers of oil from his neighbor, provided he does not say to him, “lend [them] to me”; It is permitted for a person to borrow things from another person on Shabbat as long as he doesn’t say “lend to me.” There are actually two words in Hebrew for “lend” one which implies money or something that will be paid back, and the other which implies returning the object itself. Using the first verb sounds too much like doing business and it is therefore prohibited on Shabbat. This is the verb in our mishnah. However, the second verb is not problematic. For instance, if the borrowed object was a book which itself will be returned, there is no problem.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Shabbat
And similarly a woman [may borrow] loaves from her neighbor. Just as a man may ask his neighbor to borrow pitchers of wine and oil, so too a woman may ask her neighbor to borrow loaves of bread.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Shabbat
If he does not trust him he may leave his cloak with him [as a pledge] and squares up with him after Shabbat. The mishnah now provides a means by which the lender may guarantee that he receives compensation for his loan. The borrower cannot merely pay the lender, nor can they write down an amount or even state how much is owed. What they can do is have the borrower leave his cloak with the lender as a pledge. After Shabbat they can square up and the borrower can pay the lender back.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Shabbat
Similarly, if the eve of Passover in Jerusalem falls on Shabbat, he may leave his cloak with him [the vendor] and take his paschal lamb and squares up with him after the festival. This section deals with a situation where a person had not bought his pesach sacrifice (the paschal lamb) before Shabbat which fell the day before Pesach. He may do what the person in section one did to buy wine and oil he leaves his cloak with the merchant selling lambs, buys his lamb and then on Monday he can settle up how much he owes.
