On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, Jim Muth wrote:
Today is the seventh day of the week. (Our calendar is wrong. Monday is actually the first day of the week.) It's a day of rest both for the Deity and the created.
First day of the work-week. You'll notice that the Jewish tradition is still to take Saturday off. Or most of it, in terms of the clock, because the Sabbath in the bible is from sundown to sundown. This is gleanable from the index in many bibles. The Christian (And legally, I think it's the New Brunswick) variation seems to stem from something to do with The Christ working on The Sabbath and rising on it, but I really don't understand that explanation. Those scriptures speak of tolerance and practicalities to me, as do most teachings of Jesus. As for the risen part, that pretty much follows from rest, ay? You might also note that Seventh Day Adventists are on the Jewish side of WHICH day is the common day off. I'm neither, but I hav a strong inkling that my Dad's ancestry is Jewish. As far as work goes, about the only thing that I plan for in order to stop doing it on the weekend, is spending money. There are way too many 24hour shops in this part of the world, and I just don't understand why so very few hav banker's hours like they do in Europe. The 4-day workweek is for union employees, bosses, people on fixed incomes, the independently wealthy, and Wal-Mart staff when they don't work two jobs, so the best we can hope for is a shorter day. I think they close some malls early, here, on Mondays. I don't know what that's about, but I guess that so many people like going out to satisfy their covetousness with graven images after church, that very few people need to shop on Mondays.