Jon Collins

And then every seventh day, God says, stop it.

Stop it.

Where this train's headed... That's not going to matter.

It's a universe of kings and queens, each sitting under their own fig tree, to use the language of the story of Solomon.

Yeah, that's right.

Yep.

Let's go to the way of saying it.

So Deuteronomy has a liberation from slavery emphasis.

And the Exodus version has a cosmic participation type of emphasis.

And just enjoy the good things that God's given me and not think that the universe rests on my labor.

within the Hebrew Bible and then in Jewish tradition, the seventh day takes its cue from the Genesis narrative that the markers from the day start evening to morning.

Day begins at sundown, which is crazy for modern Westerners because we think the day ends at sundown and begins at sunrise.

That's not the conception of time in the seven-day narrative.

So this is why Jewish communities, as far back as we can tell,

A seventh day begins on what today we call Friday at sundown.

So from Friday to Saturday.

And so this is still, you know, in the modern state of Israel, when the modern nation state of Israel was founded in 1948, that's how they created Israel.

and instituted their calendar.

And I'll never forget, when I lived there during the school year, it took me so long to get used to it.

Because Sunday was essentially what Monday is in Westernized or Christianized cultures.