When an animal with a blood congestion attack will die without bloodletting on Shabbat, may one instruct a non-Jew to perform the bloodletting?
Synopsis
The Mechaber permits instructing a non-Jew to let blood for an animal when failure to do so would result in the animal's death. The rationale is that if it were not permitted, the owner's anxiety over losing his animal (a monetary loss) would drive him to do it himself, thereby violating a Torah prohibition.
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