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A man who was used for years as the Shabbat Goy for Jews was discovered to be Jewish, according to recent reports.
The Seret-Vizhnitz Hasidic community in Haifa, Israel, was surprised to discover this week that the man who for years had served as the local Sabbath gentile was actually Jewish.
According to a local news website, which broke the story, reported that the man in question is of Romanian origin. It was believed that he and his family was Christian.
He worked for one of the institutions of the Hasidic community, and helped many people by conducting activities prohibited to Jews on the Shabbat. A “Saturday gentle“ may help certain types of work prohibited by Jews on Saturday.
Questions were first raised about the background of the man when he mentioned that his mother lit candles on Friday night. At that time, a local Vizhnitz man said that community members thought that
the family was showing knowledge of Jewish customs in order to prove eligibility for Israeli citizenship.
However, the Chassidim later heard the man singing Jewish songs. When asked what he was singing, he explained that these were the songs he had heard as a child. His bosses sent him to a Jewish jurist in the city. After a brief investigation into the man’s background, the decision was made that the man is definitely Jewish.
A sign was posted on the main community synagogue that the worker is Jewish and should not be asked to do any work prohibited on the Shabbat.
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