Shabbat! Why?
by: Shmuel ben Shalomi

Did you know thousands of years ago human beings worked 7 days a week for up to 12 hours per day?

The workers (everyone but the privileged priestly and ruling class) were placated to endure heavy labor by the introduction of beer. That's correct! People were paid in beer and bread. Bread to fill their stomachs and beer to numb their minds and bodies to the harsh labor inflicted on them by their particular Elohim (god/gods).

Then around 6,000 years ago in Sumer - modern day Iraq - Enlil and Enki (the two most powerful Elohim of the entire planet Earth) introduced the concept of a day of rest giving humans the option to take the opportunity to rest a day or they could continue working for the gods.

2,700 years later this idea of a day of rest became encoded into the Law of a nation called Israel from our Lawgiver Moshe Rabbeinu (our teacher) from the Hebrew's Elohim with the title YHVH. The Shabbat (the 7th day on the Jewish Calendar - Saturday) became a...