When a Jew and non-Jew are partners in a business, field, oven, bathhouse, or millstone, and they stipulated at the outset that Shabbat profits go to the non-Jew and one weekday's profits go to the Jew in exchange, is this arrangement permitted?

ShabbatBusiness With Non-Jews

Synopsis

If partners stipulate before entering the partnership that the non-Jew takes all Shabbat profits and the Jew takes one weekday's profits in exchange, the arrangement is permitted. This works because the Jew never accepted responsibility for Shabbat work, and the non-Jew is not acting as the Jew's agent.

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