Responsa for Shabbat 269:6
איתמר רב אמר הלכה כת"ק ושמואל אמר הלכה כר"ש בן אלעזר
one may desecrate the Sabbath, but for an eight-months' infant one may not desecrate the Sabbath.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Rabbis held that such could not possibly live; hence there is no point in desecrating the Sabbath by circumcising him. ');"><sup>5</sup></span>
Teshuvot Maharam
Q. Is a Jew permitted to milk a cow on the Sabbath?
A. No, but because of the danger to the cow in not being milked, one is permitted to tell a Gentile to milk it and keep the milk for himself.
SOURCES: Cr. 182; Pr. 49, 638; Hag. Mord. Shabb. 466; cf. Shaare Teshubah (Geonic Responsa), 221; Asheri Shabb. 18, 3; ibid. B.M. 2, 29.
A. No, but because of the danger to the cow in not being milked, one is permitted to tell a Gentile to milk it and keep the milk for himself.
SOURCES: Cr. 182; Pr. 49, 638; Hag. Mord. Shabb. 466; cf. Shaare Teshubah (Geonic Responsa), 221; Asheri Shabb. 18, 3; ibid. B.M. 2, 29.
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