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Rabbi Moshe Moretov - How to Open Business on Shabbat?

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Rabbi Moshe Moretov

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thank you okay so since people ask us about uh how to open a business on Shabbat and how to make the the contract with the details of it so I want to explain to you how does it work because people are confused with this about business yeah a person asked me on Thursday Friday he called me he said RAB I have a business a barber shop says that I want to make it caser for for Shabbat how should I do it that was his question so I put a little bit something together over here huh so it's over here like this generally a business that is owned by a Jew may not operate on Shabbat if this owned by yeah which is Shabbat if this owned by yeah which is from Friday Sunset until Saturday night 72 minutes after Sunset okay from Friday until Shabbat 72 minutes after Shabbat finishes that's the time Jew should not work on Shabbat aering to work even if none of the employees working on Shabbat are Jewish everybody that work on in the off in the business are go nevertheless a Jew owned business may not allow its Jew owned business may not allow its non-jewish employees to work on itself on on its behalf on Shabbat going working in your place in your business on Shabbat you're not allowed to do that I'm not there I don't call them I don't watch the camera over there I don't do nothing and he's working going working by themselves it's his salary hold on we didn't speak about salaries right now going working by themselves in my place does all

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  1. 0:00thank you okay so since people ask us about uh how to open a business on
  2. 2:04place does all however business that must be open on Shabbat for example if their clients
  3. 4:09price I list that a business to a a rent the business owner for a weekend
  4. 6:14$950 and they're go whatever he makes extra goes to his pocket he pays me rent
  5. 8:15calculations why the reason being it would be very tedious to make these calculations each week
  6. 10:16order like this always going to be on the paper $950 that I take out of
  7. 12:18can do with the rental you can say if your place is cost $4,000 or $5,000
  8. 14:21shabat so he pays $50 to go so now he says if I will close it
  9. 16:27find a replacement the contract also stipulates that the Jew owner agrees to protect the non
  10. 18:30can do without any issues the legal transactions with a go and Shabbat Sunday he pulls

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