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Is it though? I think most people brought up in the Christian tradition would associate the Sabbath with rules about church attendance and Sunday best, dutiful visits to great aunt Agatha, etc.

Very much not doing nothing, just not doing financially productive work.

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Sabbath includes letting land rest every seven years and forgiving debts every seven years (literally a write-off) so, yes, I think this "write-off principle" with a cute name is the same as the old Sabbath concept.

It does bring up the point that the long history shows us that in this case the spirit of the law is more important than the letter of the law because people push the boundaries of the rules.

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