Days were divided into seven-day weeks at Creation, with the seventh day set aside as a day of rest. If you are at all familiar with Hebrew numerology, you'll know that the number of each day corresponds in meaning with those things created on that day. Two obvious examples are six and seven. Six is the number of man, who was created on the sixth day. Seven is the number of completion and perfection. Creation was complete and God rested on the seventh day.
Eight is the number of new beginnings. On the eighth day of Creation, a new week began--the first week of the completed creation. Throughout the Bible, eight is a day for starting new things. The eighth day of Sukkot is a high Sabbath in honor of the start of a new life in relationship to God. The eight days of Hanukkah represent the rededication of the Temple and are a shadow of the Great Sukkot to come (Isaiah 4, among others). Yeshua rose from the dead at the very beginning of the eighth day not to change the Sabbath from the seventh day--that is actually one of the signs of the antichrist (Daniel 7:25)--but to symbolize a new phase of his ministry and the new life we have in him.
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