 Shabbos goy

A Shabbos goy, Shabbat goy or Shabbes goy (, "shabbos goy"; , "goy shel shabat") is a non-Jew who performs certain types of work ("melakha") which Jewish religious law ("halakha") prohibits a Jew from doing on the Sabbath.The term is a combination of the word "Shabbos" (שבת) meaning the Sabbath day of rest, and "goy", which literally means "a nation" but colloquially means a "non-Jew" (in Biblical Hebrew "goy" means simply "a nation", but in Mishnaic Hebrew it is used in the sense of "a non-national", i.e., "a non-Jew").