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The Talmud often states calculations of zmanim in terms of the time it takes to walk some distance, stated in mil (Biblical miles).Most authorities reckon the time it takes to walk one mil as being 18 minutes, though there are opinions of up to 24 minutes.
Zman is Hebrew for "time", and may refer to: A time of day with applications in Jewish law; A semester in a Yeshiva; The blessing of Shehechiyanu; Zman Yisrael, the Hebrew-language sister web site of the Times of Israel; The plural form zmanim may also refer to: The third book in Maimonides' Mishneh Torah; A newspaper run by the Progressive ...
Relative hour (Hebrew singular: shaʿah zǝmanit / שעה זמנית; plural: shaʿot - zǝmaniyot / שעות זמניות), sometimes called halachic hour, temporal hour, seasonal hour and variable hour, is a term used in rabbinic Jewish law that assigns 12 hours to each day and 12 hours to each night, all throughout the year.
Bein hazmanim (Hebrew: בֵּין הַזְּמַנִּים, lit. 'between the times') refers to vacation time in Jewish yeshivas. Bein hazmanim generally correspond to the major Jewish holidays, and are periods during which official studies are suspended and students typically leave the yeshiva setting. [1]
Pages in category "Time in religion" ... Zmanim This page was last edited on 28 August 2024, at 05:21 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
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The concept of a halakhic date line is mentioned in the Baal HaMeor, a 12th-century Talmudic commentary, [2] [3] [6] which seems to indicate that the day changes in an area where the time is six hours ahead of Jerusalem (90 degrees east of Jerusalem, about 125.2°E, a line now known to run through Australia, the Philippines, China and Russia).
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