I have found that if you truly give up all work and worry for one day a week, you can keep the other implied half of the Commandment, which is to work 6 days. I haven’t done it today. I have to work 7 day weeks currently to get everything done. I probably should have worked more than I did today, but I’m glad I didn’t.
Here is the point I wanted to make. Investigating Sabbath candles, I found not only that you are supposed to light two, but that the eldest woman in the household lights it.
Judaism tends to be treated as a patriarchal religion, which no doubt has its share of patriarchs, but women play a central role as well, in ways which would be inconceivable in Islam. It is logical that your faith passes through the woman, and not the man.
And are there not many strong women in the Old Testament?