Halakhah sur Rosh Hashanah 4:104
Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayim
21. We do not break the laws of Holidays for the Rosh Hashanah shofar, even something that is only rabbinically prohibited. How so? If there was a shofar at the top of a tree or across a river and there is no other shofar, one does not climb the tree or sail on the water. Having a non-Jew do these things is permissible, because that is a rabbinic prohibition on top of a rabbinic prohibition.(Meaning, the prohibition of telling a non-Jew to do an action [on a holiday] that is prohibited by the Torah is a rabbinically enacted prohibition to ensure resting [shevut] from telling non-Jews to do things, and when the action in question is itself a rabbinic prohibition, this is a rabbinic prohibition on top of a rabbinic prohibition [shevut d'shevut]) and when there is a commandment to do, the rabbis made no such decree (see 307).
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