"Remember the Sabbath Day to Keep it Holy" (Ex.20:8)
(Task below)

"Friday Evening" (ca. 1920)
Painting by
Isidor Kaufmann, Austria, 1854 - 1921

Tasks:
1. What evidence of Shabbat can you identify in the painting?

2. When is this scene taking place?
What do you imagine the woman is thinking?

3. How does the painting illustrate the verse from the Ten Commandments quoted above?

(click here to read the verse [Exodus 20:8] in context)

4. What do you like about the painting?  What do you dislike about it?  Why?
 
 

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