Jews are forbidden from usury in dealing with fellow Jews, although not exclusively.[clarification needed] Lending is to be considered tzedakah.[clarification needed] However, there are permissions to charge interest on loans to non-Jews,[21] restricted to cases when there is no other means of subsistence "If we nowadays allow interest to be taken from non-Jews, it is because there is no end to the yoke and the burden king and ministers impose on us, and everything we take is the minimum for our subsistence, and anyhow we are condemned to live in the midst of the nations and cannot earn our living in any other manner except by money dealings with them; therefore the taking of interest is not to be prohibited" (Tos. to BM 70b S.V. tashikh).[22]