[Mark 2:27-28; RSV]. And claiming authority over it It is true that the Catholic Church through the authority of Christ replaced the Hebrew Sabbath (Saturday) with the Lord's Day (Sunday); however ...

notes how Shabbat observance was ridiculed by both non-Jewish and Jewish authors, and any leniencies, such as eruv, mocked. The Halakha, the religious laws of Shabbat, were seen as convoluted ...