Name: Anonymous 2014-09-07 15:49
Why do sheep works 8 (or even 9) hours per day, 5 days per week, instead of 7 hours and 4 days?
Do you think I am crazy? Well, I have an simple experiment for you: try to find in Google (a Jewish search engine) the history of the weekend. You will find absolutely nothing. Not even in Wikipedia (except for a small paragraph about how hard was the life in the 19th century). In fact the only article you will find, if you search hard enough, is this one: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_workweek.html
Modern history calls those times the ``Dark Ages''.
Do you think I am crazy? Well, I have an simple experiment for you: try to find in Google (a Jewish search engine) the history of the weekend. You will find absolutely nothing. Not even in Wikipedia (except for a small paragraph about how hard was the life in the 19th century). In fact the only article you will find, if you search hard enough, is this one: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_workweek.html
A thirteenth-century estime finds that whole peasant families did not put in more than 150 days per year on their land.
Modern history calls those times the ``Dark Ages''.