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Title: Lending Money to non-Noahide Gentiles- Forbidden?
Post by: Raulmarrio2000 on February 10, 2008, 06:47:30 AM

I was wondering if it may be a sin to lend money, or pay a wage or debt in advance to a Gentile who is known for not keeping the Noahide Laws..... After all that Gentile may use that money to commit a sin. Just some examples: travelling to meet a lover forbidden to him or her, buying idolatry articles, buying an animal and slaughtering it unpropetly (leading to Ever min HaChai), going to a court and give false testimony, or, the worst of all, having an abortion made or buying a medicine thet can be used to purposedly lead to a miscarrage!
What do you think?
And what about lending to an heretic non observant Jew?

Title: Re: Lending Money to non-Noahide Gentiles- Forbidden?
Post by: Tzvi Ben Roshel1 on February 10, 2008, 12:53:47 PM

(*not necessarily official Halacha- but my opinion)- I think it is allowed, and you can take interest from him/her. The reason is because if you dont give it, they can take from someone else anyway (just like in the case of selling a building). + a Jew isn't responsible for the sins of a gentile.
  The second part is a lot more complicated. Officially one can take interest, but it is not done today because it would cause a lot more problems (for example if he made tishuva in the middle, you have to return the interest, and a lot more complicated concideration would go into it).