Everybody's Working for the Weekend

I updated the links so that they now work.

Thank you for weekends from my prayer a day RSS feed.
I would be neglectful to not point you to these facts out to you, note the one about stoning for working on the Sabbath (via the Wikipedia)

• It is the first holy day mentioned in the Bible, and God was the first one to observe it with the cessation of Creation. (Genesis 2:1-3).


• Jewish liturgy treats the Sabbath as a "bride" and "queen".


• The Sefer Torah is read during the Torah reading which is part of the Saturday morning services, with a longer reading than during the week. The Torah is read over a yearly cycle of 54 parshiot, one for each Shabbat (sometimes they are doubled). On Shabbat the reading is divided into seven sections, more than on any other holy day, including Yom Kippur. Then, the Haftarah reading from the Hebrew prophets is read.


• A tradition states that the Jewish Messiah will come if every Jew properly observes two consecutive Sabbaths (Talmud, tractate Shabbat 118).


• The punishment given in ancient times for desecrating Shabbat (stoning) is the most severe punishment within Jewish law.