Translation:Shulchan Aruch/Orach Chaim/252
252: Tasks that are Permitted to be Started on the Eve of Shabbos so that they should be Completed on Shabbos, and that are Forbidden.
1 It is permitted to start an action on the eve of Shabbat near darkness, even though one cannot complete it while it's still daytime and it gets finished by itself on Shabbat; for example, to soak an ink and dyes in water and they soak during the entire Shabbat; and to put onin (meaning: bundles) of flax in the oven in order that they be whitened; and to put wool inside the pot that is not on the fire, and he covers it with mud; for if it is on the fire it is forbidden, lest one will rake (meaning: will uncover and will stir the coals with a coal pan). And even if it is not on the fire, if it isn't covered in mud, it is forbidden, lest he stir it with a spoon; and the one who stirs in the pot, even if it is not on the fire, is liable because of cooking.
And it is permitted to spread out traps for an animal and birds and fish, and they get trapped on Shabbat. And it is permitted to sell to a non-Jew and to load it for him close to dark – and only provided that he will leave the door of his house while it is still day.
Gloss: And there are those that permit that a heathen may take out on Shabbat if the heathen will designate a place for him while it's still daytime in the house of the Jew. And one should be strict (Mordechai, first chapter of Shabbat). And see below, Siman 325.
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It is permitted to give one's garments to a non-Jewish launderer and his hides to a worker (meaning: the craftsman that works out and repairs the hides) close to darkness, if he established a price for him or that he does them for a favor, and that is provided that he should not tell him to do on Shabbat, and also that the heathen should perform the work in his house.
Gloss: And if he did not fix, it is forbidden on Erev Shabbat, and see above, Siman 247, that there are those who differ if one does it for him for free, meaning for a favor.
And if he saw him performing his work on Shabbat, if he was doing as a favor, he needs to say that he should not work with it on Shabbat.
Gloss: And even if he gave them to him several days before Shabbat.
3 And if it was a well known melachah, and it is known that it is of a Jew, and he performs it in a publicized place, it is good to be strict and to forbid.
4 As long as he fixed a price, even though the heathen will perform work on Shabbat, it is permitted for a Jew to wear the garment on Shabbat itself, for as long as he fixed, he works for himself. Gloss: And there are those who forbid to wear it when it is known that the heathen finished it on Shabbat. (Hagahos Ashiri, first chapter of Shabbat; and Mahar"il; and Beis Yosef in the name of Rokeach). And one needs to wait on the evening after Shabbat as long as it takes to do (Or Zarua), and this is the custom initially, except if he needs it on Shabbat, for then one can be lenient. And if there's room to rely that it was finished on Erev Shabbat, it is permitted in all cases [Hagahos Alfasi]. And specifically if the heathen sent to him to his house. However, it is forbidden to take vessels from the craftsman's house on Shabbat and Yom Tov [Mordechai, first chapter of Yom Tov; and Or Zarua; and Hagahos Maimoni, Chapter 2 of the Laws of Yom Tov; and Hagahos Ashiri, Chapter "It is Forbidden to Hunt"]. And all of this applies to vessels that he made for a Jew (Beis Yosef). However, a heathen who makes shoes for selling, it is permitted for a Jew who knows him to go and to take from him on Shabbat and to wear them, provided he does not fix the purchase price with him [Hagahos Ashiri, Chapter "It is Forbidden to Hunt"].
5 And it is permitted to open water to the garden and it continues to flow all of Shabbat; and to put thick collyrium [a drug for healing that is placed on the eye] on the eye even though it is forbidden to put it on Shabbat; and to put perfume under the clothes and the process of perfuming continues by itself all of Shabbat, and even perfume that is placed in a vessel, since a man is not commanded on the rest of vessels; and to put barley in a tub to soak them. And beams of the olive press and the wine press are loaded while it is still day upon the olives and the grapes, and the oil and the wine that comes from them is permitted [And see below, Siman 320, Seif 2]. And similarly, unripe grapes and ears that he mashed them while it is still day, the liquid which comes forth from it is permitted. And it is permitted to put wheat in a water mill near dark.
Gloss: And we do not worry about the sounding of the voice that they will say 'the mill of so-and-so is grinding on Shabbat'. And there are those who forbid regarding mills and in any place that there is a worry about sounding a sound (Tur; and Tosefos and the Rosh, Chapter 3 of Shabbat; and Sma"g; and Book of the Heave-Offering; and Hagahos Maimoni, Chapter 8; and Teshuvas Mahari"v, No. 130; and Agur) and so is the custom initially. However in a place of loss, there is room to be lenient as explained above, end of Siman 244. And it's permitted to place a keli of a weight called zeiger from Erev Shabbat even though it sounds a voice to announce the hours on Shabbat, because everyone knows that it is their way to place it from yesterday (Tur; Agur) and see below, Siman 338.
6 A person should not go out on Erev Shabbat close to darkness with his needle/pin in his hand and not with his quill pen for he might forget and take it out. However, it is permitted to go out with tefillin close to dark because he does not forget them.
7 It is a mitzvah for a person to feel his vessels on Erev Shabbat close to dark to make sure there is nothing in them that it's forbidden to go out with it on Shabbat.