Series: Yadin Yadin

Venue: YU Wilf Campus YU Wilf Campus

Halacha:

Business,  Ribbis 

Description

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/2BDm0S0Dh4o | Discussing precedent for Rav Moshe Feinstein's chiddush (Iggerot Moshe vol. 2 Yoreh Deah 63) that corporations are not subject to Ribbis, as they are a sheibud nechasim without a sheibud haguf, and Rabbi Bleich's arguments against it. See Benesivos HaHalacha vol. 2 page 191 at length here: See also: Rav Bleich in the Sotheby Sale article https://www.sefaria.org/Contemporary_Halakhic_Problems%2C_Vol_III%2C_Part_II%2C_Chapter_XV_The_Sotheby_Sale.101? Halachipedia's summary of the machloket: https://halachipedia.com/index.php?title=Corporations_and_Partnerships_with_Respect_to_Ribbit#Corporations