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Sabbath

(Encyclopedia) Sabbath [Heb.,=repose], in Judaism, last day of the week (Saturday), observed as a rest day for the twenty-five hours commencing with sundown on Friday. In the biblical account of…

Friday

(Encyclopedia) Friday: see Sabbath; week.

Sunday

(Encyclopedia) Sunday: see Sabbath; week.

Saturday

(Encyclopedia) Saturday: see week; Sabbath.

Brewer's: Sabbath

Day's Journey (Exodus xvi. 29; Acts i. 12), with the Jews was not to exceed the distance between the ark and the extreme end of the camp. This was 2,000 cubits, somewhat short of an…

Sabbatarians

(Encyclopedia) Sabbatarians, persons who insist upon strict observance of Sunday as the Sabbath. Societies promoting Sabbatarian objectives include the Lord's Day Alliance of the United States and…

Broadway Theaters

Thirty-six theaters grace the Great White Way, the Broadway theater district, which lies bordered by 41st to 53rd streets and Sixth to Ninth avenues.New York Convention & Visitors…

liturgy, Jewish

(Encyclopedia) liturgy, Jewish, rites, observances, and procedures of Judaism. Communal prayer, with a quorum of ten men (or in some modern communities, ten people), replaced the priests of the…

The Devil's Dictionary: Sabbath

by Ambrose Bierce SACERDOTALISTSABBATH -n. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh. Among the Jews observance of…

Brewer's: Sabbath of Sound

(The). Silence. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894SabbathiansSabbath A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Related…