Editing Monday (section)

=== Judaism ===
In [[Judaism]], Mondays are considered auspicious days for fasting. 

In Judaism, a small portion of the weekly [[Parashah]] in [[Torah]] is read in public on Monday and Thursday mornings, as a supplement for the [[Saturday]] reading). Special penitential prayers are recited on Monday unless there is a special occasion for happiness which cancels them. According to the Mishna and Talmud, these traditions are due to Monday and Thursday being "the market days" when people gathered from the towns to the city.

A tradition of [[Ashkenazi Jews]] to voluntarily fast on the first consecutive Monday, Thursday and Monday of the Hebrew month is prevalent among the ultra-orthodox.

In Hebrew, Monday is called "Yom Shení", literally meaning "Second Day", following the biblical reference to the sabbath day as the "Seventh-day" and the tradition of that day being on [[Saturday]]. It has been established that the phonetic and cultural link between the planet Saturn, Saturday and the Sabbath day is of ancient Mesopotamian origin.<ref>[https://www.jstor.org/stable/751082 Saturn Jews], Eric Zafran Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes. See also [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem|Hebrew University]] Professor [[Moshe Idel]]'s book, Saturn Jews, and Shlomo Sela's article [https://katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/blog/saturn-and-jews Saturn and the Jews] (University of Pennsylvania) about trends in late Judaism distancing it from the link between the Sabbath day and Saturn.</ref>