Study Avodah Zarah folio 22A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
The Talmud answers: R' Shimon ben Elazar does not accept the principle that a sharecropper works for his tenancy, rather than as the Jew’s employee. The Talmud asks: But if so, with regard to a non-Jew, what is the reason that it is permitted to rent to him? The Talmud answers that we say to him th
The Talmud asks: If that is so, why does R' Shimon ben Elazar state specifically that the reason for the prohibition is because the field is called by the name of the owner? Let him derive this halakha due to the fact that the Samaritan, like a Jew, is commanded to refrain from labor during the inte
§ The Talmud relates that there were certain saffron growers who jointly owned a field in an arrangement according to which a non-Jew took possession of the field and worked in it on Shabbat, and a Jew took possession of it on Sunday. They came before Rava, to find out if they could divide their pr
Ravina raised an objection to the ruling of Rava from a baraita: In the case of a Jew and a non-Jew who received tenancy of a field in partnership, with the understanding that they were to work the field and receive part of its produce in exchange, the Jew may not say to the non-Jew: Take your port
And if they did not make this stipulation and later came to calculate the number of weekdays for which the Jew should receive the profit, corresponding to the number of Shabbatot that the non-Jew worked, it is prohibited, as this would mean that when the non-Jew worked on Shabbat, he was working on