Mishnah Shabbat
If a non-Jew lights a lamp, a Jew may make use of its light. But if [he does it] for the sake of the Jew, it is forbidden. If he draws water to give his own animal to drink, a Jew may water his [animal] after him. But if [he draws it] for the Jew’s sake, it is forbidden. If a non-Jew makes a plank to descend [off a ship], a Jew may descend after him. But if [he makes it] on the Jew’s account, it is forbidden. It once happened that Rabban Gamaliel and the elders were traveling in a ship when a non-Jew made a plank for getting off, and Rabban Gamaliel and the elders descended by it.
Adapted from the translation ofJoshua Kulp.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 2: Emerging Judaism.
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