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following the commandment prohibiting interest. What is the connection
between them?
When a person lends money with interest to his fellow it demonstrates that
he lacks faith, since he does not believe that Hashem will provide him
with his livelihood from a different source. The Exodus was symbolic of
Bnei Yisrael’s emunah in Hashem, because they followed Him trustingly
into the Wilderness, which was an unsown land. Whoever charges interest
lacks this fundamental emunah.
“For the Children of Israel are slaves to Me,
they are My slaves, whom I have taken out of
the land of Egypt – I am Hashem, your G-d”
(Vayikra 25:55)
