In the last in this series, The Shabbat You Never Knew, we provide a detailed examination of the biblical and legal definitions of Shabbat, distinguishing it from common cultural views of labor. We emphasize that the Hebrew term Malaka refers specifically to creative mastery or "craftsmanship," modeled after the thirty-nine categories of work used to construct the Tabernacle.
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