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The Talmud in Pesachim (see above) [7] holds symmetrically that the time between daybreak and sunrise is also the time in which one can walk four mils. For morning calculations, daybreak is normally held to be when the sun is 16.1° below the horizon, or else a fixed 72 (or 90) minutes before sunrise.
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.
A Western Wall camera, also known as a wallcam, is a live webcam that displays action at the Western Wall live as it is taking place. Some cameras operate all the time. Others refrain from operating during Shabbat and Jewish holy days .
Watch a live view over the Israel-Gazaborder as fighting with Hamas continues on Monday (23 October). Israel has now widened its attacks to include targets in Syria and the occupied West Bank.
A relative hour is defined as 1 ⁄ 12 of the time from sunrise to sunset, or dawn to dusk, as per the two opinions in this regard. Therefore, an hour can be less than 60 minutes in winter, and more than 60 minutes in summer; similarly, the 6th hour ends at solar noon , which generally differs from 12:00.
Watch a live view of the Gaza skyline as the Israel-Hamas war enters a fifth day. Palestinian civilians were scrambling to find safe havens on Wednesday morning (11 October) as Israel stepped up a ...
Watch a live view of the Gaza skyline on Thursday 12 October, as Israel continues to bombard the territory. Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to “crush and destroy” Hamas and said every member of ...
Calculate the sunset time, which is the solar noon time plus the sunset hour angle in degree divided by 15; Use the sunset time as input to the solar geometry routine to get the solar azimuth angle at sunset. An interesting feature in the figure on the right is apparent hemispheric symmetry in regions where daily sunrise and sunset actually occur.