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Re: [b-hebrew] Exo 20:9-10

From: "Yaakov Stein" <yaakov_s AT rad.com>
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Exo 20:9-10
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:13:03 +0300

> So there is no commandment to "work" on the other six days.

Actually, there are Rabbinic interpretations both ways.
For example, Avot deR. Natan Ch 21 understands a commandment to work for
6 days,
while Maimonides in his list of the 613 mitzvot does not include one for
working 6 days.

Yaakov (J) Stein

Re: [b-hebrew] Exo 20:9-10, Yaakov Stein, 04/28/2008