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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
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Posted: Thu Jan 10 14:03:38 1985
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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?

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Alan Filipski, UNIX group, Motorola Microsystems, Tempe, AZ U.S.A
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