Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site mot.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!unc!mcnc!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!oakhill!mot!al From: al@mot.UUCP (Al Filipski) Newsgroups: net.religion.christian,net.religion.jewish Subject: When is the Sabbath? Message-ID: <76@mot.UUCP> Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 14:03:38 EST Article-I.D.: mot.76 Posted: Thu Jan 10 14:03:38 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 08:31:23 EST Organization: Motorola Microsystems, Phoenix AZ Lines: 19 Xref: watmath net.religion.christian:79 net.religion.jewish:1246 Just how literal do you want to be? There seems to be no end to the amount of casuistry possible. If you consider a "beginning of Sabbath" for us to be a time congruent MOD 24*7 hours to a "beginning of Sabbath" for Moses (~6:00 P.M. Friday night in Israel), I think you'll find (ignoring relativistic effects :-) that the Sabbath begins about 8:00 A.M. Friday morning, Phoenix AZ time. Or, if you say that the Sabbath is determined by counting local sunsets, what do you do in the Arctic when there are fewer than 7 per week? Can you miss a Sabbath by crossing an arbitrary "date line"? Is our idea of what constitutes a "Saturday" or a "Sunday" the same as Y*H*W*H's and hence is it meaningful to say that one is the true Sabbath and the other isn't? -------------------------------- Alan Filipski, UNIX group, Motorola Microsystems, Tempe, AZ U.S.A {allegra | ihnp4 } ! sftig ! mot ! al {seismo | ihnp4 } ! ut-sally ! oakhill ! mot ! al -------------------------------- Consider the lilies of the field-- They are not on welfare.