What is the meaning of "Ki Sasheh ve'Re'acha Mashas Me'umah"?
Rashi, Targum Onkelos and Targum Yonasan:: 'If you lend your friend any kind of loan. 1
Sifri: "Mashas" means a loan, and Me'umah incorporates the remunaration of a hired laborer and credit that is owed to a shopkeeper.
Rashi (in Yeshayah, 2:4:2): 'Loveh' refers to a monetary loan, 'Nosheh' to loans of other commodities, such as wine, oil, grain and honey'.
Seeing as the word for a security is "Mashas, and "Chovel" (in Pasuk 6) means to take a security, why does the Torah add "La'avot Avoto"?
Malbim: "Avot" is an expression of assurance (a security), irrespective whether it is given willingly, or taken Bal Korcho. 1
Ha'amek Davar: "Avot" means 'a loan'. Since it is doubled however, it refers to a security that is given against the loan.
Targum Onkelos in Vayeitzei Bereishis, 31:34 translates "be'Char ha'Gamal" as 'ba'Avita de'Gamla'. This is because a camel is tall, and the pillow is for assurance that the rider will not fall. An Avit for olives or for urine is wide at the bottom, as an assurance that it will not flip over.
What are the impliations of "Lo Savo el Beiso"?
Bava Metzi'a, 115a #1: It implies that, although the creditor is not permitted to enter the debtor's house to collect a Mashkon, 1 he is permitted to enter the house of the guarantor to collect his loan.
Bava Metzi'a, 115a #2: It implies that the creditor is permitted to enter the house of someone for whom he carried his cases, who hired his donkey, who rented his room or for whom he made renovations in his house. 2
See Torah Temimah, note 114. Malbim: Th'e prohibition only applies if the loan has already taken place and the creditor is demanding payment. At the time of the loan however, the creditor is permitted to enter the debtor's house, since he has the option of not lending the debtor without a security. (How does this prove that the creditor may may enter the debtor's houe? If the borrower is willing to give any security he requests, and to let a Shali'ach Beis Din enter the house to verify that he has nothing else, there is no need for the lender to enter his house. And if he refuses to lend without reason, he transgresses an Asei - PF). See also and Torah Temimah, note 118.
Provided he did not specificlly turn it into a loan. See Torah Temimah, citing Bava Metzi'a, Ibid.
