Commentary for Bava Kamma 160:15

אלא כדאמר רבא התם אומר לנכרי ועושה ה"נ אומר לנכרי ועושה ואע"ג דאמירה לנכרי שבות היא משום ישוב ארץ ישראל לא גזרו ביה רבנן

that a Gentile is asked to do it; so also here a Gentile is asked to do it. For though to ask a Gentile to do some work on the Sabbath is Shebuth,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'abstention', but which came to denote a matter of mere Rabbinic prohibition on Sabbath and festivals; v. Bez. V, 2. ');">²⁵</span> the Rabbis did not maintain this prohibition in this case on account of the welfare of Eretz Yisrael.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As they similarly dispensed with Shebuth in the case of Temple service; cf. Pes. 65a. ');">²⁶</span>

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