I Blog the Least on the Sabbath
After I wrote The Difference Between Sunday School and Saturday School, I became curious about the days of the week on which I blogged the most frequently, and after a short analysis I discovered that out of my 2,500 published posts (not including this one) the frequency count is as follows:
| Count | Day of Week | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| 232 | Saturday | 9.3 |
| 295 | Sunday | 11.8 |
| 322 | Friday | 12.9 |
| 407 | Monday | 16.3 |
| 408 | Thursday | 16.3 |
| 415 | Tuesday | 16.6 |
| 421 | Wednesday | 16.8 |
As one can see, I "rested" the most on the Sabbath when less than 10% of my articles were published.
Source: the data is taken from my list of published articles and their posted dates: link.
For those of my readers who may not be familiar with the Jewish concept of resting on the Sabbath, I offer the following synopsis:
Jewish Law identifies thirty-nine categories of activity prohibited on the Sabbath (1) mostly regarding farming, preparing food, sewing or cleaning of clothing, hunting, construction, working with fire, and writing.
Many Gentiles believe that Jews are not allowed to work on the Sabbath, associating the word "work" with physical activity or employment; however the word "work" as it applies to the Sabbath is defined differently than the gentile version of the word. "Work" in the Sabbath sense is interpreted by Jewish authorities to mean activity in which something is being completed or created. This definition covers mental creativity even when there is no physical effort. For example, a devout Jew should not be imagining a screenplay in his head on the Sabbath. A rabbi, meanwhile, is certainly allowed to "work" leading services on the Sabbath.
ENDNOTES
(1):
Judaism 101, The Nature of Shabbat
- Sowing
- Plowing
- Reaping
- Binding sheaves
- Threshing
- Winnowing
- Selecting
- Grinding
- Sifting
- Kneading
- Baking
- Shearing wool
- Washing wool
- Beating wool
- Dyeing wool
- Spinning
- Weaving
- Making two loops
- Weaving two threads
- Separating two threads
- Tying
- Untying
- Sewing two stitches
- Tearing
- Trapping
- Slaughtering
- Flaying
- Salting meat
- Curing hide
- Scraping hide
- Cutting hide up
- Writing two letters
- Erasing two letters
- Building
- Tearing a building down
- Extinguishing a fire
- Kindling a fire
- Hitting with a hammer
- Taking an object from the private domain to the public, or transporting an object in the public domain.


