May one purchase a house in Eretz Yisrael from a non-Jew on Shabbat?
Synopsis
The Mechaber permits buying a house in Eretz Yisrael from a non-Jew on Shabbat, including having the non-Jew write the contract and register it in courts. The Rema qualifies this as permitted because non-Jewish script writing is only rabbinically forbidden, and for yishuv Eretz Yisrael the Sages did not decree. Major dispute exists on whether the writing is truly only rabbinic.
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