He blessed it due to the expenditure.21He gave Shabbat a blessing that people should not suffer a long-term financial loss when spending money to honor it. Rabbi Levi said in the name of Rabbi Yosei ben Rabbi Ḥanina: Every day on which there is reduction [among the creations of that day], blessing is written in its regard, and in fact it lacks nothing. On the fifth day, birds and fish were created, and people slaughter and eat birds and trap and eat fish, [reducing their number], but since blessing is written in its regard22Genesis 1:22. it lacks nothing.23The birds and fish replenish themselves through reproduction.
On the sixth day, man and animal were created, and people slaughter and eat animals, and people die, but since blessing is written in its regard24Genesis 1:28. it lacks nothing. But regarding the seventh day what can you say?25Why was it necessary for God to give a blessing for Shabbat? Rabbi Levi said in the name of Rabbi Yosei ben Rabbi Ḥanina: It is for the expenditure.