Related for Moed Katan 25:9
מותיב רב ששת וחכ"א שלש אומניות עושין מלאכה בערבי פסחים עד חצות החייטין והספרין והכובסין החייטין שכן הדיוט תופר כדרכו בחולו של מועד הספרין והכובסין שכן הבאין ממדינת הים והיוצא מבית האסורין מותרין לספר ולכבס בחולו של מועד
What is the clause, 'Or he has not [enough] to eat' intended to cover here? Is it not to include [casual] 'earning-jobs'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., find a poor man some odd, unnecessary job to do, as a chance of earning something wherewith to buy provisions for the Festival.');"><sup>13</sup></span> - [Yes], you may infer that.
Tosefta Pesachim
And the Sages say, even in a place where they said that labor may not be performed from Passover Eve until midday [on the fourteenth of Nissan], three craftsmen may [nonetheless perform their] work: tailors, hairdressers, and launderers. The tailors, for [even] an ordinary person may sew in his customary way on the intermediate days of a Festival. The hairdressers, for a Nazirite and a metzora and someone who suffered a wound to the his head may cut their hair on the intermediate days of a Festival. The launderers, for someone coming from the seaside, or from other countries overseas may launder [their clothes] on the intermediate days of a Festival. Rabbi Yosei bar Rabbi Yehuda says, even shoemakers, for pilgrims [traveling by foot to Jerusalem] during the pilgrimage Festivals may repair their shoes and their sandals on the intermediate days of a Festival. Dung that is in the middle of [*--?--] they may may clear it to the sides. [Dung] that is in a barnyard or a courtyard -- they may take it out to the garbage heap. (*Note: The Tosefta here is defective. Minchat Bikkurim supplies "מבוי", i.e., "an alleyway.")
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