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From: teitz@aecom.UUCP
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Subject: Re: When is the Sabbath?
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Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 13:47:35 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 14 13:47:35 1985
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    Quote at end.

    Can someone please send me the original article to which everyone
 seems to be responding?

    Shabbat is dependent on local time. The problem with the North Pole is
 not an easy one to solve and I'm sure was not mentioned by rabbis of 
 previous generations because they were unaware of the problem. The same
 questions arise but in reverse for astronauts. Do they have Shabbat every
 seven revolutions around the earth ( they see 7 sunrises ) ?

		Eliyahu Teitz.


> 
> 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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