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Shabbos goy
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A Shabbos goy, Shabbat goy or Shabbes goy is a non-Jew who is employed by Jews to perform certain types of work that Jewish religious law prohibits a Jew from doing on the Shabbat.
A car in Jerusalem with a sign in the window that reads "goy shel shabbat" in Hebrew
A car in Jerusalem with a sign in the window that reads "goy shel shabbat" in Hebrew
Goy
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Goy is a term for a gentile, a non-Jew, sometimes in a pejorative sense. The word, of Hebrew origin, was adopted into English from Yiddish. It carries a similar meaning in Modern Hebrew.
Shabbos goy
…prohibits a Jew from doing on the Shabbat. 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. The word goy, which translates literally as "nation" in Biblical Hebrew, has over time acquired the meaning of someone who…
A page from Elia Levita's Yiddish–Hebrew–Latin–German dictionary (16th century) including the word goy (גוי), translated to Latin as ethnicus, meaning
A page from Elia Levita's Yiddish–Hebrew–Latin–German dictionary (16th century) including the word goy (גוי), translated to Latin as ethnicus, meaning heathen or pagan.