Chapter 90 – Doing Things that Are Not Actual Work – Work Through a Non-Jew

90.1) For the sake of performing a precept on the Sabbath, you may run.

90.2) Do not survey your property on the Sabbath to determine what needs to be done the next day.

90.3) Do not walk to the end of the Sabbath boundary on the Sabbath.

90.4) Do not say what you plan to do in the future on the Sabbath.

90.5) Only religions affairs may be attended to on the Sabbath.

90.6) You may think about business affairs on the Sabbath.

90.7) You may arrange to see a workman on the Sabbath.

90.8) If you hire a non-Jew to work for you, you may not pay him for work done on the Sabbath.

90.9) Do not give gifts on the Sabbath.

90.10) Do not peruse ordinary documents such as bills, accounts, or letters on the Sabbath.

90.11) Do not read inscriptions under drawings on the Sabbath.

90.12) Do not measure anything on the Sabbath.

90.13) You may discuss how to deal with a loss on the Sabbath.

90.14) You may not ask a non-Jew to do anything on the Sabbath that a Jew is forbidden to do.

90.15) If you see a non-Jew doing work for you on the Sabbath, you must stop him.

90.16) If you are about to experience a loss, you may have a non-Jew do something to avert the loss.

90.17) In case of an emergency, you may ask a non-Jew to do something you are not permitted to do on the Sabbath.

90.18) You may ask a non-Jew to light the stove on a cold Sabbath.

90.19) Do not send a non-Jew outside the Sabbath boundary to attend to a burial.

90.20) If a non-Jew arrives on the Sabbath with grain to pay a debt, you may allow him to put it in the barn and measure it out himself.

90.21) You may supervise a non-Jew making cheese on the Sabbath to make sure he complies with Jewish dietary rules.

90.22) Do not allow a non-Jew to take delivery of merchandise he has purchased from you on the Sabbath.

90.23) If you forget to light the yahrzeit (memorial for the death of a loved one) candle, you may ask a non-Jew to light it on Friday at twilight.