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> The Jewish day of rest — the Sabbath — falls on every seventh day. With an added blank day inserted each December, the Jewish seven-day cycle (believed to be
by lostlogin 3y ago
> The Jewish day of rest — the Sabbath — falls on every seventh day. With an added blank day inserted each December, the Jewish seven-day cycle (believed to be dictated by God) would no longer align with the days of the week. The Sabbath — a day on which work is prohibited for Jews — would land on a different day of the week (and not necessarily on a weekend) each year.
So did mankind keep the universal 7 day week (as god intended it) and in doing so, inadvertently prove it to be a man-made construct?
- willsoon 3y agoWell, you know these things, and like the ban on eating pork (pork doesn't walk in the sand, so you have to buy it from somewhere) and morals in general, are a bit opportunistic. There are 28 days in a lunar month, easy to divide by 2, impossible to divide by 3, so 4 is a convenient number. Nevertheless, God makes the sun and the stars and the moon, which go round every 28 days - the light before the stars, which could be well aligned with Einstein. When it's time to harvest, look at the moon, don't worry about the sun. And perhaps Jehovah of the Seven Armies was El in the beginning. A local deity who was certainly a harvest deity. The problem is difficult. The year doesn't agree with the months and the months don't agree with the days, hence the calendar.
- Horffupolde 3y agoPerhaps it was God’s plan altogether.
- chungy 3y agoThe Jews have been keeping track of 7-day weeks consistently for the past 4 millennia. If anything, it proves that trying to break the cadence gets ugly fast.
- qayxc 3y agoI think you are confusing the Sumerians with the Hebrews here. It was the Sumerians who have the oldest documented reference to a 7-day week, not the jews.