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If one borrowed an item, not to use it but to be seen with it, so that people will assume that he is wealthy, what is the halakha? In order for him to be liable, do we require that he borrow an item of monetary worth, and that exists in this case? Or, perhaps we require that he borrow an item of monetary worth from which he also derives tangible benefit, and that does not exist in this case.
We explore the attitude to poverty in the Talmud as well as how women were able through their wits to support their children if not employ subterfuge as in a close (feminist) reading of Eyshes Chayil.