Halakhah do Przysłów 3:28
אַל־תֹּ֘אמַ֤ר לרעיך [לְרֵֽעֲךָ֨ ׀] לֵ֣ךְ וָ֭שׁוּב וּמָחָ֥ר אֶתֵּ֗ן וְיֵ֣שׁ אִתָּֽךְ׃
Nie mów bliźniemu twemu: Idź, a wróć znowu, a dam ci jutro! gdy to już masz przy sobie.
Sefer HaChinukh
And [also] the law of an agent who hired wage workers, who [is it that] transgresses on account of 'do not lay over' - he or the owner - that everything goes according to the expression that he [used] with the workers. And that which they said (Bava Metzia 110a) that the employer only transgresses at the time that the wage worker claims [the wage from] him and he does not give it to him, but if he does not claim [it from] him, he does not transgress. [(Scribal) emendation: Or if he claimed (it from) him and he did not have with what to pay, and he does not find someone who will lend to him, he does not transgress. To here (is the emendation).] And so [too,] if he assigned to the worker that someone else pay him and the worker accepted, the employer is exempt, even though the other one did not pay him later. And that which they, may their memory be blessed, said (Bava Metzia 110b), that one who delays the wage of a wage worker until after its time - even though he has already transgressed a positive commandment and a negative commandment - he is obligated to give [it] to him as soon as he demands it. And all the time that he delays his payment - even after the time - he transgresses a negative commandment from the rabbis, may their memory be blessed; and they based it on this verse, that is written (Proverbs 3:28), "Do not say to your fellow, 'Go, and come back, etc.'" And [also] the law of the wage worker, that he makes an oath (that the money is still owed) and takes [it], so long as he claims his wages within its time - and even if the wage worker was a minor, he too makes an oath and takes - and they, may their memory be blessed, gave a reason for this (Bava Metzia 112b): since the [employer] is preoccupied with his workers. [These] and the rest of its details are elucidated in the ninth chapter of [Bava] Metzia (see Tur, Choshen Mishpat 339).
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