Responsa על מועד קטן 23:5
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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