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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.
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.
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).
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]
In Israel, it is used for religious purposes, provides a time frame for agriculture, and is an official calendar for civil holidays alongside the Gregorian calendar. Like other lunisolar calendars, the Hebrew calendar consists of months of 29 or 30 days which begin and end at approximately the time of the new moon.
Hystaspes), that the Second Temple was constructed (Ezra 6:15), [36] in the sixth-year of his reign, the timeframe given for this Persian king in Jewish chronology (whose reign, accordingly, began in 358 BCE) stands at variance with the time-frame given for the same king in conventional chronology (who is said to have reigned between 521 BCE ...
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 ...
The usual time for this prayer service is between sunrise and a third of the day. If one missed a third of the day, it may be recited until astronomical noon, referred to as chatzot. [ 8 ] After that (technically, half an hour after chatzot ), the afternoon service ( mincha ) can be recited.