A Shabbos goy, Shabbat goy or Shabbes goy (Yiddish: שבת גוי; Hebrew: גוי של שבת, romanized: goy shel shabbat; plural Shabbos goyim) is a non-Jew who is employed by Jews to perform certain types of work (melakha) that Jewish religious law (halakha) prohibits a Jew from doing on the Shabbat. == Etymology == The term is a combination of the words Shabbos (שבת), the term for Sabbath in Ashkenazi Jewish usage, and goy (גוי), a gentile or non-Jew.
A Shabbos goy, Shabbat goy or Shabbes goy (Yiddish: שבת גוי; Hebrew: גוי של שבת, romanized: goy shel shabbat; plural Shabbos goyim) is a non-Jew who is employed by Jews to perform certain types of work (melakha) that Jewish religious law (halakha) prohibits a Jew from doing on the Shabbat. == Etymology == The term is a combination of the words Shabbos (שבת), the term for Sabbath in Ashkenazi Jewish usage, and goy (גוי), a gentile or non-Jew.
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