Payment for Work on Shabbat
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Question
For Shabbat for all the reasons
Topic: Work on Shabbat
Is it permissible to receive payment for work that was done on Shabbat?
Topic: Work on Shabbat
Is it permissible to receive payment for work that was done on Shabbat?
Answer
Shalom and blessings
It is forbidden to receive payment for work on Shabbat.
This prohibition applies even to work that is otherwise permitted on Shabbat, such as serving as a waiter or reading from the Torah, and the like.
There is a way to permit the payment, by means of “havla'ah” (inclusion), that is, when one sets a single fee both for work done on a weekday and for the work done on Shabbat, as one combined price.
For example: agreeing that the price for waitering on Shabbat and for arranging the hall on Motza'ei Shabbat is 1000 shekels.
Source
Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 306:4.
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