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A new Mishnah states that an investor cannot set up a storekeeper to sell his goods in order that the storekeeper should receive half of the profits.
[Being that the storekeeper is also responsible for half of the stock, even under forced circumstances, it is as if he is giving the storekeeper a loan in order that he should make money, which is deemed interest ]
The braisa states: [When the Mishna says he receives wages,] It means like a worker who is paid for his time (but he does not have to expend any effort). The Gemora asks: How is this applicable here (he has to put in effort to sell the fruit)?
Abaye says: It means that he is paid to rest from his difficult work and do this instead.
We return to the Halacha of Iska and Rav Lichtenstein’s analysis of the miderabanan innovations thereof.