Why would someone in the Goren want to transfer his fruits to someone else?
- To give the person a present for helping him harvest.
- The tax collector is coming, and the lower person is a lower tax bracket.
- To avoid the Chomesh surcharge by Maaser Sheini.
- The other person is his partner, who is due some of the food.
- So he can receive the Maaser Uni on this food.
How can a Matbeya be involved in a Chalipin transaction?
- It can effect a Chalipin transaction, and be acquired via Chalipin.
- It cannot effect a Chalipin transaction, yet may be acquired via Chalipin.
- It can effect a Chalipin transaction, and yet may not be acquired via Chalipin.
- It can neither effect a Chalipin transaction, nor be acquired via Chalipin.
- It can only effect Chalipin when being used for a Mitzvah, such as Maaser Sheini.
How could the employer take money from the moneychanger to pay his workers, and repay him a bit more?
- He wasn’t taking actual money, but unstamped coins.
- It was for a Mitzvah of paying workers.
- He had the money at home at the time that he took the money, so there is no Ribis issue.
- Answers A and B.
- Answers A and C.
Why would Chazal institute that a Matbeya cannot effect a Chalipin transaction, even though the Torah allows it to be used?
- So the seller will protect the buyer’s merchandise until the buyer comes to pick it up, for it will be his own loss.
- It’s not a Kli.
- A coin’s value is that it is minted, which isn't an inherent value.
- Answers A and B.
- Answers A and C.
Illegal money that is still used secretly
- Is still considered to be a Matbeya, and may not be used for Chalipin.
- Is no longer considered to be a Matbeya, and may be used for Chalipin.
- It depends how public the black market is.
- May only be used for Chalipin when they are together with other coins.
- Should be kept outside of one’s house, in case the police find it.