Seven-day week
185The Law on Mount Sinai
18 Mar 2024
44:45¶ 160
“God created a week by using seven days in which to create and rest, and that was the first one. Then Israel maintained it,…”
44:24¶ 153
“And then you come to weeks. I had a student ask me this years and years ago. “Why do we have weeks?”
44:00¶ 151
“It’s emphasizing the importance of time, but particularly it’s giving them weeks, not just seasons like crops are planted now, they’re harvested now, it’s…”
59Happy New Year... Again
14 Feb 2021
6:12¶ 23
“It hasn’t stopped. Jews celebrated it. Christians picked it up. The Christian West carried it on, and it’s going in a straight line from…”
5:54¶ 17
“The question I’ve gotten from teenagers over and over again is, “But what about the week?”
40Sociology of the Sabbath
4 Oct 2020
11:25¶ 38
“No, you’re not listening to me. God started it. God’s people preserved it. The Church picked it up. The Church carried it to the…”
12:06¶ 41
“The other things like the day, the year, and the month are tied to stellar things that we can observe, but there is no…”
11:03¶ 33
“The Russian communists tried something like that, and it too did not work very well. I’ve actually had my students ask, “So where did…”