The Sabbath Day
 by Moshe Gabbai
(Task below)

"Six days you shall do work, but the seventh day is a day of rest, a sacred assembly.
You shall do no work.  It is a Sabbath to God in all your dwelling places" (Lev.23:3)

1. What elements of the Sabbath Day can you identify in the painting?

2. How many different scenes can you identify? What different stages of the Sabbath day are depicted?

3. How does the painting illustrate the verse from the Bible quoted below it?

(click here to read the verse [Leviticus 23:3] in context)

4. What different tasks do men and women perform in the painting?  Why?

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