----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Rubenstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 7:44 PM Subject: Re: OT Shabat - was: Toronto this weekend.
> 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 > Bruce, In hebrew you call the seventh day Yom Shabbat (day of sabbath). The other six days are called first to sixth day. I should have referred to it as Yom Shabbat, but in the original post it seemed sufficient to call it Shabat (or Shabbat). Jeff.
