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Question
If I borrowed from neighbors a package of food and there was a little left in it and I finished it—for example, ketchup—how can I return it to them? May I give them a new package and consider whatever I supposedly did not take as a gift, or is that considered interest (ribit)? How should I act?
Answer
Shalom u-vracha.
You should return only the amount that you took (it does not have to be exact, but approximately).
You can also pay the monetary value of the amount that you took.
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