Jon Collins
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Six days you labor, seventh day you Shabbat.
Because in six days God made everything, and then on the seventh day he rested.
That's the rationale.
Here, in Deuteronomy 5, six days you do your work, seventh day you Shabbat, so that your slaves can get the same rest that you, and the implied you there is the slave owner.
Your slave is not your slave on the Shabbat, as it were.
Your slave gets the same rest from work.
Gets treated the same.
There's an equality to the seventh day.
And then you go back to that list and you're like, oh, yeah, your son or your daughter, slaves, animals, immigrants, everybody dies.
becomes an equal, as it were, on the day of Shabbat.
This has kind of a social angle to it, as opposed to a cosmic angle.
Isn't that interesting?
Now, this social angle of social equality, the Sabbath is about a