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There was a Yiddish song about a Shabbos goy. Any links to the lyrics?:)
"It is a beautiful image of reciprocal blessing." Isn't this POV? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.90.231.159 (talk) 10:58, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
The last paragraph of this article reads more like a religious tract than an encyclopedia entry. Where's the NPOV? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.25.144.213 (talk) 12:45, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
Shwartza is quite derogatory. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.97.195.2 (talk) 18:27, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
There are many references to a teenaged Elvis Presley performing Shabbos tasks for his upstairs neighbors. However he might not have been a Shabbos Goy because there is evidence that he would be considered Jewish under Jewish law through is maternal lineage. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jny (talk • contribs) 02:24, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
Sometimes "shabbos" is used and sometimes "shabbot" is used. Also, sometimes "Shabbos" is capitalized and sometimes not. Why? 184.153.71.204 (talk) 14:01, 10 March 2013 (UTC)-- [User: Fuerle]
Many of the statements in the article are subject to interpretation.
For example....It is absolutely forbidden to ask explicitly for a non-Jew to do any Melacha. If however a person is sick to the extent that he cannot move out of his bed, then certain Rabbinic restrictions fall away - such as taking medication.
If however, the situation is potentially life threatening or life threatening, the Torah-prohibitions are subject to leniency, depending. For example, it is better to hire a non-Jewish taxi driver to take a woman in labor to the hospital.
In general therefore, we see that Generally you cannot explicitly ask a non-Jew to do any Melacha. Only in exceptional circunmstances. Hinting, itself is a problem, and only may be performed on certain Melachos....for example, you cannot hint to a non-Jew to turn on a light, if he doesn't benefit from it, however, only in specific circumstances.
In short, the article needs to have proper citations.
Dannyza1981 (talk) 20:47, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
Hasn't the term been used quite frequently as an anti-semitic epithet directed at non-Jewish people thought to be "too nice" to Jews? If this is so, it should be mentioned here. -- 77.7.162.131 (talk) 00:22, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
The Anti-Defamation League had an article on Gilad Atzmon where it was reported that he used it in such a manner. 68.46.42.9 (talk) 11:32, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
Then a reference should be included as to the fact that it has a derogatory meaning when used in a certain sense, whether or not such usage is considered, "antisemetic", whatever that means, in regard to jews. (Noting that non-jew Palestinians, as well as most Arabs are semitic peoples.) 72.218.232.144 (talk) 17:28, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
There are RS that Pressley and the Fruchters hung out and that the Fruchters influenced Elvis' music: [2], [3], [4] I think we can increase the section and include Elvis here and then have this as a DYK hook. Sir Joseph (talk) 19:48, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
Shouldn't Shabbos Goy be capitalized in the article (and the title) since it's a proper noun? See here [5] for example. Sir Joseph (talk) 01:03, 25 April 2023 (UTC)