Saturday from the name Saturn roman god. Saturn's day. At 08:19 PM 12/5/2002 -0500, you wrote:
Ah, thank you, Bruce!
From the way Jeff worded his post, I thought Shabat = Saturday. But, thanks to
you, I understand now.
And, the next time I meet your wife, I'll be sure to let her know that you do
indeed know "this stuff"! <vbg>
cheers,
frank
Bruce Rubenstein wrote:
> Due to your Christian-centric upbringing, you've got things backwards: the
> word is Shabbat and the English version of the original word is Sabbath.
> Also, Shabbat is not Hebrew for Saturday. A week has six days and then
> Shabbat. It happens to fall on the Christian calendar day of Saturday.
> Now, everyone here has to promise not to tell my wife that I know this
> stuff.
>
> BR
>
> From: frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I just learned something new. I didn't know that Shabat was Hebrew for
> Saturday. I knew (or at least I think I'm right) that Shabat is Hebrew for
> Sabbath. And, I knew that the Jewish Sabbath is on Saturday. But since we
> Christians (well, I ~used~ to be a Christian <g>) keep Sunday as the
> Sabbath, I didn't realize that Shabat was the actual day of the week,
> Saturday.
>
> Geez, the things I learn from this list never cease to amaze me!!
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