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Talmud for Avodah Zarah 5:1

הַשּׂוֹכֵר אֶת הַפּוֹעֵל לַעֲשׂוֹת עִמּוֹ בְיֵין נֶסֶךְ, שְׂכָרוֹ אָסוּר. שְׂכָרוֹ לַעֲשׂוֹת עִמּוֹ מְלָאכָה אַחֶרֶת, אַף עַל פִּי שֶׁאָמַר לוֹ הֲעֲבֵר לִי חָבִית שֶׁל יֵין נֶסֶךְ מִמָּקוֹם לְמָקוֹם, שְׂכָרוֹ מֻתָּר. הַשׂוֹכֵר אֶת הַחֲמוֹר לְהָבִיא עָלֶיהָ יֵין נֶסֶךְ, שְׂכָרָהּ אָסוּר. שְׂכָרָהּ לֵישֵׁב עָלֶיהָ, אַף עַל פִּי שֶׁהִנִּיחַ הַגּוֹי לְגִינוֹ עָלֶיהָ, שְׂכָרָהּ מֻתָּר:

If one (a gentile) hires a worker (a Jew) to work for him with yayin nesech [to pour it from vessel to vessel or to take jugs from place to place (even with the ordinary wine of gentiles)], his wages are forbidden (in the derivation of benefit). [This is a penalty imposed upon him by the sages for dealing with yayin nesech or with their ordinary wine.] If he hired him to do other work with him, even if he told him: "Take this jug of yayin nesech from place to place," his wages (for the other work) are permitted, [as when he said to him: "Each jug for a perutah"; but if he said to him: "Deliver for me a hundred jugs for a hundred perutoth," and one jug of yayin nesech were found among them, his wages are forbidden.] If one (a gentile) hires an ass (from a Jew) for delivery of yayin nesech, his hire fee is forbidden (to the Jew). If he hired it to ride upon, even if the gentile placed his (wine) vessel upon it, his hire fee is permitted.[This Mishnah is adduced for its latter part, that if one hires an ass to ride upon, even though he apparently hired it also to place his wine vessel and food upon — so that one might think that this is to be considered as if he had hired it ab initio to transport yayin nesech and the hire fee is forbidden — we are apprised otherwise.]

Jerusalem Talmud Sheviit

It was stated94Tosephta 6:26; there camel drivers are mentioned instead of “all those working”. The quote in the Babli (Avodah Zarah 62a) mentions only donkey drivers.: “The wages of donkey drivers, carriers, and all those working with Sabbatical produce are Sabbatical.” Rebbi Zeïra said, this baraita deals with permitted produce. What is the meaning of “the wages are Sabbatical”? That they may take their wages in the form of Sabbatical produce. Then it must be that, when Rebbi Joḥanan taught those of [the House of] Rebbi Yannai not to take the wages of their oil presses in wine but in money, he taught them following Rebbi Jehudah and Rebbi Neḥemiah95The baraita is taken as the position of the rabbis opposing Rebbis Jehudah and Neḥemiah (Note 69). This position is rejected in the Babli (loc.cit.) since the text does not include “all those working with produce”. It is held that poorly paid workers may be paid in kind following the rules of Mishnah 5 but not highly paid donkey drivers, following Rebbi Abbahu.. Rebbi Hila96He is R. La.: the baraita deals with those who carry forbidden produce97Produce from guarded fields or harvested in a professional way.. What is the meaning of “the wages are Sabbatical”? As Rebbi Abbahu, Rebbi Joḥanan said, they fined him with wine of libations98This refers to Mishnah Avodah Zarah 5:1 which states that the wages of a Jewish worker earned by a contract which specifies work for wine used, or to be used, for idolatrous libations is forbidden for all usufruct. R. Abbahu (Avodah Zarah Halakhah 5:1) notes that no principle of law requires that the wages be forbidden; it is a rabbinic ordinance imposed to avoid situations in which pagan wine might be sold to Jews, and the same situation applies here.; here also, they fined him.
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