Responsa for Pesachim 105:12

מקום שנהגו לאכול צלי בלילי פסחים אוכלין מקום שנהגו שלא לאכול אין אוכלין:

ONE MAY NOT SELL. AND IN ALL PLACES ONE MAY NOT SELL LARGE CATTLE TO THEM, [NOR] CALVES OR FOALS, WHETHER SOUND OR MAIMED.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Large cattle, because they are thereby deprived of the Sabbath rest (v. A.Z. 15a) ; calves or foals, being the young of large cattle, as a preventive measure; maimed, likewise as a preventive measure on account of whole animals.');">³⁰</span> R'JUDAH PERMITS IN THE CASE OF A MAIMED [ONE].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because it is unfit for work and will immediately be killed for food. Therefore the few will not see it in the heathen's possession, and so will not come to sell him others too.');">³¹</span> THE SON OF BATHYRA PERMITTED IT IN THE CASE OF A HORSE.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The main use of a horse is for riding, and riding on the Sabbath, even by a Jew, is not regarded as Scripturally forbidden but merely as a shebuth (v. Glos.) .');">³²</span>

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