May 29, 2023

 We are beginning siman 10 (we will skip siman 8 and 9). The Chayei Adam will discuss the sixth criterion for it to be permitted to make an arrangement with a non-Jew before Shabbos regarding melacha on Shabbos. In criterion five, we learned the difference between work on something mechubar, which is generally assur, and […]

We are beginning siman 7, where the Chayei Adam will discuss what happens, bedieved, when a non-Jew does work on something mechubar on Shabbos.  The Chayei Adam writes that if the arrangement with the non-Jew was of a sechir yom, if he did construction, the Jew may not benefit from the construction forever (agriculture may