"You Must Extend a Loan to Your Brother" - Racial Discrimination in Lending Today
Judaism for the Thinking Person

”You Must Extend a Loan to Your Brother” - Racial Discrimination in Lending Today

2020-08-18
The Rabbinic Commentators focus on the fact that Deuteronomy frequently and repeatedly uses the word ach, brother, to describe the needy person who isn't related to you.  Whereas earlier in Torah, we are told not to oppress the "poor" or "afflicted" person, Deuteronomy modifies this language by insisting that we must loan to these people because they must be seen as our "brothers and sisters."  I don't see any reading possible other than that the Torah is focusing on the problem of re...
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