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‏Shabbat in Egypt | Rabbi Ari Kahn

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there is a wonderful midash which says that in Egypt the Jews started to keep Shabbat mosenu is wandering around and he sees the slaves and then he turns around to his uh what do you want to call him surrogate grandfather and he says to him you know I've been studying efficiency in the universities of Egypt and uh we get greater work efficiency from workers if you were to give them some type of rest so then he says well what do the studies show well the studies show that if you give them one day off in seven then they will be more efficient goes which day do you think is best to give them off he goes probably Saturday is the best day to give them off and mosha fools parro into ordering that the Jews rest on Sha on Shabbat