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Rabbeinu Tam (and many other Rishonim) say that there are two times called "sundown": Pesachim describes the actual sundown (four mil before nightfall), while Shabbat 34b describes a time 3/4 mil before nightfall. [1] These lead to different opinions on the length of bein hashemashot. According to the Geonim, nightfall is 13½-18 minutes after ...
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.
0.963–1.146 km (in case of Talmud opinion referencing a Roman mile: 1.481 km [12]) Time to walk a mil is 18–24 minutes. [14] parasa (parsa'ot) פרסה parasang: 2.41–2.85 mi 3.87–4.58 km Distance covered by an average man in a day's walk is 10 parsa'ot. Time to walk a parasa is 72–96 minutes. [14]
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]
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The time between each gēng is 1 ⁄ 10 of a day, making a gēng 2.4 hours—or 2 hours 24 minutes—long. The 5 gēngs in the night are numbered from one to five: yì gēng ( 一 更 ) (alternately chū gēng ( 初更 ) for "initial watch"); èr gēng ( 二更 ); sān gēng ( 三更 ); sì gēng ( 四更 ); and wǔ gēng ( 五更 ).
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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