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From: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Barry Gold)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: When is the Sabbath?
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Date: Sun, 20-Jan-85 14:26:42 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 20 14:26:42 1985
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Summary: 

I read once (I don't remember where) that if you are shipwrecked and find
yourself on a desert island (or similarly lose track of time) you should
celebrate Sabbath every SIX days, becase that way you'd get right
occasionally, and you'd be keeping it at least as often as was commanded.

I suspect that at the North Pole, you should set up a cycle of 24 hour days
with sunset occurring at 6PM and key the hours to the time zone from which
most of the people there originated.  (Or for Jerusalem, if they were feeling
more keyed into their ultimate origin as Jews.)

There's also the matter of the Jewish holidays Down Under.  Is it proper to
celebrate Sukkot as a Harvest Festival in the spring?  Tu Bi-Shevat in
the autumn?

One interesting problem I myself had to cope with was the Second Seder
on Saturday afternoon.  My husband's parents gave a Second Seder Saturday
well before sunset.  Does one say the Sabbath-keyed prayers in the
Hagaddah, decide that it's "virtually" Saturday night and therefore do the
Havdalah portions of the Hagaddah, or decide that since the Sabbath-keyed
prayers were said yesterday (at the First Seder) and the Havdalah prayers
aren't appropriate yet, one does the normal weekday Seder?

--Lee Gold

PS  Did my message explaining that Jesus, far from being an observant Jew,
didn't even follow the Noachic commandments make it to the net?