Word: sabbaths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carrying on a personal custom he has maintained for 29 years, the Premier last week began holding open house on the Sabbath at his residence. No previous Premier ever did this. "It's not my home; it's yours," Begin earnestly told several hundred visitors who showed up for the first session. Begin as a good politician is constantly visible attending bar mitzvahs and berit (circumcision rites), or praying at the Wailing Wall. Unlike Rabin, a secular-minded sabra, Begin is a deeply religious man who seems quite comfortable with yarmulke, shawl and prayer book. The Premier even...
...created in the autumn of 4026 B.C., which meant that 6,000 years of human existence would end in late 1975. The 6,000 years would be followed by the Millennium, 1,000 years of "Sabbathlike rest," just as God rested after six days of Creation and established the Sabbath...
...rabbis, Begin agreed to a list of 30 demands on religion-related issues, among them: autopsies will only be performed with a family's consent; women will only be able to get abortions for medical reasons instead of citing, as they now may, difficult "social or family conditions"; Sabbath observance will be tightened; girls opposed to military duty for religious reasons will find it easier to obtain exemptions...
...Among the U.S. denominations that observe a Saturday Sabbath: Jews, Seventh-day Adventists and Seventh-day Baptists...