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From: hopp@nbs-amrf.UUCP (Ted Hopp)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: Moled... (Yom Kippur days)
Message-ID: <471@nbs-amrf.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 16-Mar-85 00:26:50 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 16 00:26:50 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 17-Mar-85 22:34:06 EST
Organization: National Bureau of Standards
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>	When our present calendar was set up it was arranged in such a way
> that certain occurrences would not happen. Yom Kippur was always arranged
> to not fall out on Friday or Sunday ( because there would be two successive
> days when food could not be prepared ).
>
>			Eliyahu Teitz.

I believe there is a much more important reason: if Yom Kippur were to
fall on Friday or Sunday, there would be too long a period during which
the dead could not be buried.
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Ted Hopp	{seismo,umcp-cs}!nbs-amrf!hopp