Beware lest there be a base thought in your heart, saying, "The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand," and your eye be evil against your needy brother and you give him nothing, and he cry out to Hashem against you, and it be sin in you.
English: "Lest there be a base thought in your heart" — this teaches that one who refrains from lending because of shemittah is called a base person (beliya’al).
On the daf / in context: The Torah applies the severe epithet beliya’al to the person who lets the approaching shemittah deter him from the mitzvah of lending.
Type of Learning
Derash on the verse (Sifrei) — refusal to lend near shemittah earns the title beliya’al.
What Is Learned
One who withholds a loan because the year of release is near is designated a beliya’al.