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Behold, this is a new thing, that a man should prepare for himself a proper arrangement to place before him a sequence of the documents that are necessary to make and to correct, for their status is as if they are compressed, hidden in every matter. It is mentioned briefly before a little of the aspects and their explanations. He who has the intent to be clear and correct, we have found everything desirable before him to write it. He occupies himself with the book Leshon Limmudim Language of Learning on the distinguished Rabbi, of blessed memory, which contains the collection and the necessary things...
A document of Iska a formal business partnership agreement that allows for the charging of profit/interest while remaining compliant with Jewish law is needed according to the request of So-and-so, and he desired according to his will, that is to say, for Master Samuel, called So-and-so, and he became liable for a full debt, and received from his hand the sum of 20 units of currency, Pa"d likely a specific currency notation or abbreviation, to engage with them, half of the profit and half of the loss that our Sages, of blessed memory, ordained—as it were—so that it would be according to the law of our Holy Torah, clarified in the matters of the business and the loan... These are the documents we have evaluated. These are the words of mercy with which God has graced me, and we have established and arranged this document, and the appraiser is accustomed, and the signature is ordered; in all these, their aspects will be conducted according to all the statutes and the decree of the Sages. For it is true that the debt stands alone, and according to the knowledge of the document, the formula is there, here, thus, the sum, the sum, explicitly, after the words of mercy. Also, heaven forbid that a loan document should be written here, and there should come at the time of business a "sucking" likely referring to a usurious or exploitative mechanism and this is the writing. They labored for the owners of the document in the honor of mercy to bond it and to correct it against what was written in the document, and he received the business like it, according to all the custom among us, for the sake of Heaven, to supplicate as it were. And on account of the lender, it is done and it will arise in the heart and [it is] folly, and they will not be misled by the idolaters. The division was half and half, according to all the conditions of kindness, in all that is appropriate, and the whole document will be upheld.