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# It is forbidden to buy, sell, give rent, and take rent on [[Shabbat]] applying both to the buyer and seller. <Ref> The Mishna (Beitzah 36b) states that one may perform Kiddushin or designate an item as Hekdesh on [[Shabbat]]. The Gemara (37a) explains that these activities were forbidden because of the prohibition of doing business (Mekach UMemkar) on [[Shabbat]]. Rashi 37a s.v. Mishum offers two reasons to forbid business on [[Shabbat]]. Firstly, it should be prohibited based on “Memsoh Chefsecha VeDaber Davar” in [https://www.sefaria.org/Isaiah.58.13?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en Yishayahu 58:13], which is understood by chazal to mean that one should refrain from engaging or speaking about weekday activities on [[Shabbat]]. Secondly, doing business on [[Shabbat]] is forbidden as a rabbinic enactment lest one come to write down the details of the transaction. The Ramban (Vayikra 23:24) explains that this rabbinic prohibition of doing business on [[Shabbat]] is essentially based on the biblical mitzvah of “Shabaton” which refers to resting on [[Shabbat]]. </ref> | # It is forbidden to buy, sell, give rent, and take rent on [[Shabbat]] applying both to the buyer and seller.<Ref> The Mishna (Beitzah 36b) states that one may perform Kiddushin or designate an item as Hekdesh on [[Shabbat]]. The Gemara (37a) explains that these activities were forbidden because of the prohibition of doing business (Mekach UMemkar) on [[Shabbat]]. Rashi 37a s.v. Mishum offers two reasons to forbid business on [[Shabbat]]. Firstly, it should be prohibited based on “Memsoh Chefsecha VeDaber Davar” in [https://www.sefaria.org/Isaiah.58.13?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en Yishayahu 58:13], which is understood by chazal to mean that one should refrain from engaging or speaking about weekday activities on [[Shabbat]]. Secondly, doing business on [[Shabbat]] is forbidden as a rabbinic enactment lest one come to write down the details of the transaction. The Ramban (Vayikra 23:24) explains that this rabbinic prohibition of doing business on [[Shabbat]] is essentially based on the biblical mitzvah of “Shabaton” which refers to resting on [[Shabbat]]. </ref> | ||
# Some say that it is permitted to [[Selling Chametz| sell Chametz]] to a non-Jew before [[Shabbat]] so that the sale is effective on Shabbat as is done when [[Erev Pesach]] falls out on Shabbat.<ref>Har Tzvi 1:127 explains that even though the sale is going to be effective on Shabbat and seems to be a problem according to Rabbi Akiva Eiger responsa 159 it should be permitted since the prohibition of a sale on Shabbat is essentially upon the buyer and not seller. Therefore, since the buyer is a non-Jew it is permitted to sell him the Chametz before Shabbat so that the sale is effective on Shabbat. Also the sale of chametz isn't a sale that will lead to writing since it is entirely to avoid any prohibition and not for business purposes.</ref> | |||
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