What is Shabbos goy?
A '''Shabbos goy''' is a [[Gentile]] who is asked by a [[Jew]] to do something on the [[Sabbath]] or one of the [[Jewish holidays]] that [[halakha]] says Jews can’t do on the Sabbath (or on the Jewish holidays). ==Etymology== Shabbos is a [[Yiddish]] way of pronouncing the [[Hebrew]] [[word]] Shabbat meaning the [[Sabbath]]. In the [[Torah]], goy is Hebrew for [[nation]] so the Almighty says He will make the [[Israelite]]s into a “goy gadol” (a great nation). But because of that, the [[Tanakh]] also says “Israel ve’ha’goyim” meaning [[Israel]] and the [[nation]]s with the word goyim, which means nations, implying the other nations. Because of that the word Goyim eventually started being used to mean [[Gentile]]s with Goy meaning Gentile. So that Shabbos Goy literally means Sabbath Gentile. {{religion-stub}} [[Category:Judaism]]