Responsa for Moed Katan 23:17
אמר רב חמא בר גוריא אמר רב הלכות מועד כהלכות כותים בהלכה למאי הלכתא אמר רב דניאל בר קטינא (אמר רב) לומר שהן עקורות ואין למידות זו מזו
<big><b>MISHNAH: </b></big>LIKEWISE IF ONE HAD HIS WINE [ALREADY] RUN INTO THE CISTERN THEN MOURNING BEFELL HIM, OR [SOME OTHER] HINDRANCE, OR WORKMEN DISAPPOINTED HIM, HE MAY DRAW OFF [THE WINE], COMPLETE THE PROCESS AND BUNG [THE CASKS] IN HIS USUAL WAY: THESE ARE THE WORDS OF R'JOSE; R'JUDAH SAYS, HE [MERELY] COVERS [THE CISTERN] WITH SHINGLES TO PREVENT IT TURNING SOUR'<big><b>GEMARA:</b></big> [LIKEWISE IF ONE HAD etc.] And this [wine clause] is necessary.
Teshuvot Maharam
Q. Is a Jew, who lives alone among Gentiles, permitted to ask his Gentile friend to hire laborers to do his work on the Sabbath?
A. He is not permitted to do so lest the members of his family or occasional Jewish guests, think that he hired the laborers himself.
SOURCES: Cr. 42; Pr. 427; cf. Rashba I, 875.
You were justified in forbidding the practice of the Jews who used to enter a Gentile's store on the Sabbath, choose hats for themselves, put them on their heads, and walk out with them, even though they bargained for them on the following day; for the hats might have been finished on that very Sabbath.
SOURCES: Wertheimer 13.
A. He is not permitted to do so lest the members of his family or occasional Jewish guests, think that he hired the laborers himself.
SOURCES: Cr. 42; Pr. 427; cf. Rashba I, 875.
You were justified in forbidding the practice of the Jews who used to enter a Gentile's store on the Sabbath, choose hats for themselves, put them on their heads, and walk out with them, even though they bargained for them on the following day; for the hats might have been finished on that very Sabbath.
SOURCES: Wertheimer 13.
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