Saturday is the store’s slowest day for sales, but there’s another service Patel provides that makes him indispensable: He’s a Shabbos goy. He even has a sign on the door advertising that fact.

The key to approaching this topic lies within the concept of Shabbos. And as Shabbos occupies one-seventh of our lives, and much of Judaism centers around its observance, let us delve into its ...