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Most of the time of time is based on nature. Dan is one rotation of the Earth. The moon is the moon orbit. The year is the Earth’s path around the sun.
But a week? There is no natural explanation for this. (Watch the video at the top of this article.)
Because of this, ancient culture defined a week in significantly different ways: four days in West Africa, 10 in Egypt, 15 in China.
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In the 1930s, the Soviets tried to completely remove the seven-day week-they were replaced by the four-day weeks and then five, “to make it easier to fight to remove religion.”
They were at least right about the source. The seven -day week is coming straight from the Bible.
In the way out, God commands, “You will work for six days, and you will rest on the seventh,” writes Mark Gerson, the author “God was right.” (East)
In exodus God commands: “You will work for six days, and you will rest on the seventh.”
That short verse carries a deep insight. First, it refers to everything. Second, he does not work as a necessity, but as a value.
The Torah does not say “the job must be done”, but that you will work. The work itself is important regardless of the outcome.
This work should not be paid. Volunteering and raising children They are certainly counting as long as the activity is demanding, consistent and productive.
“Torah does not say that” the job has to be done, “but you will work.”
Another insight can be seen in Joseph’s life, the only person in the Bible called “success” – twice. It once happened as a slave, and once as a prisoner – and all the time With God with him, whom he constantly quoted (even while he, unlike Father Jacob and grandfather Abraham, never spoke to God).
Still, the job has to stop.
Day seven, Shabbat, isn’t just a break. It is a weekly reset, a day to gather, think and reconnect.
The seventh day of the week should be “Resetting, a day to gather, think and reconnect.” (East)
The Jewish tradition calls it a “heavenly flavor on earth.”
Modern culture, however, swings between the extremes.
Most of the 20th century was considered the unfortunate financial need to escape.
We see this in popular music, such as “Heigh Ho”, “9 to 5” and “The concern for work” – all the songs about how the job is a pointless slut.
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Popular commercials in the 1980s and 90s presented an ideal life as one of the free time: playing Polo, Landing imaginative dogs in a car and dive from the yacht to the ocean.
Then around 2000 everything turned. Suddenly, the hecticity became a new honorary badge.
A new Loxi has entered the lexicon – which People are “crazy busy.”
This strange expression has become so common that he has become quintessential modest.
“Around 2000, everything turned. Suddenly, the hecticity became a new honorable badge.” (Kurt Knutsson)
It even took a shortened version for those who were too busy to say a whole four syllables – that someone’s schedule was “crazy”.
No extreme works. Free time advocates have to understand what modern studies show over and over: happiness at work is key to happiness in life.
This is partly because we spend most of our time at work, and it’s hard to enjoy life if we don’t like how we spend most of our working hours.
“Bible Joseph would be proud.”
Contemporary research has shown that we can enjoy and find meaning in any business as long as we frame it properly. This is called “job craft”.
Wharton’s study revealed that Hospital guards Who “craft” and viewed his work as part of “treatment of patients” was fulfilled and more successful than those who considered him female work.
Bible Joseph would be proud.
But that’s not the whole story.
“Contemporary research has shown that we can enjoy and find meaning in any business as long as we frame it properly. This is called” the craft of work. ” (East)
Numerous studies have revealed that there is a ceiling of productivity.
The first survey on this topic was conducted by the British Ministry of Muncy, which in 1915. Soldiers in the Great War. Concluded that the British war efforts required Saturday to workers – to make workers produce more.
The report, in part, said that “the evidence is convincing that Sunday’s work, by denying workers in a week’s vacation, does not offer him enough opportunities for recovery from fatigue … Seven days of work only produces six days, and… reductions in Sunday work did not include a significant loss of production. “
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Century later, John Pencavel, a professor at Stanford, analyzed data using modern tools.
He found that production was correlated with working hours of the first 49 hours per week.
The production rate slowed the hours 50 to 55.
Mark Gerson is the author of the new book “God was right” (June 2025). “Numerous studies have revealed that there is a productivity ceiling,” he says. (Fox News Digital)
However, there was no increase in production from hours 56 to 70. Economist, in examination of Pencavel’s work, he concluded: “There was a waste of time for that additional 14 hours.”
And so, now we have the number of what we called “Productivity ceiling”: 55 hours a week.
And here’s an amazing and perhaps divine mathematics.
“Good life is not all free time or all work.”
Saturday observer can work 10 hours a day five days a week.
He can really only work for half a day on the sixth, because he needs to prepare for Shabbat-dear-based 55-hour work week.
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So God was right.
A good life is not all leisure or all the job.
It is six days of meaningful work, followed by the seventh day of the Holy Rest.
The new book of Mark Gerson is “God was right: as modern social science proves that the Torah is true,” “ Published by Benbella Books and distributed Simon & Schuster (June 2025). This article is the second in a row exclusively presented by Fox News Digital.
