The modern Torah commentator Umberto Cassuto (1883???1951) also pointed out the implied link between God???s day of rest and ours: ???Shabbat is a day on which a person rises above the need for hard work??? and thereby becomes like God, who rested and was refreshed after the creation of the world.??? Our liberation from slavery in Egypt won us the privilege of ???owning??? our work, and not the ot