Avodah Zara 63:Timing of Payment and Using Credit

Some brief points from today's daf:

• any payment made to a prostitute, even if it is an animal, becomes forbidden once they have intercourse
• the rabbis argue about about when payment might be made, what might be used as payment, what might have been said regarding payment, etc.
• when a person gives a dinar to another, and they spend it themselves, the rabbis are concerned about what might be bought with the dinar:
• tevel without tithing
• forbidden wine
• shemita, Sabbatical year money which cannot buy more than three meals
• normal patterns of selling are meaningful, for example a grocer who usually sells to a person on credit; it is as if the grocer receives the dinar immediately
• this is compared with one who buys property using credit