This book, in many ways, marks the beginning of the Zionist movement.
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Somebody sent me a question the other day — I’m going to have to search to see who it was; I was simply under too much pressure from deadlines and trip preparations to attend to it at the time it arrived — about the origin of the seven-day week.
This article is just slightly relevant to that question. Indeed, it’s scarcely relevant at all. But not quite totally irrelevant. Anyhow, it’s a rather interesting and educational piece in its own right, providing a brief and very Jewish perspective on some important events in modern history:
http://gazette.com/when-it-comes-to-jewish-history-the-number-seven-reigns-supreme/article/1602012
Posted from London, England
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