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===Interpretations and Derivatives of Rabbeinu Tam's Position=== | ===Interpretations and Derivatives of Rabbeinu Tam's Position=== | ||
*The most standard of these positions is that a mil is 18 minutes.<ref> | *The most standard of these positions is that a mil is 18 minutes.<ref>Based on Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim Siman 459:2</ref> Therefore, communities should end Shabbat 72 minutes after natural sunset.<ref>18 min/mil x 4 mil = 72 mins | ||
This was the position advocated by R' Moshe Feinstein for Bnei Torah (even though he said 50 minutes was sufficient) as well as the private, personal practice R' Yosef Dov HaLevi Soloveitchik (1903-1993) even though he paskened one only needed to wait 30 minutes after natural sunset in New York and Boston.</ref> | This was the position advocated by R' Moshe Feinstein for Bnei Torah (even though he said 50 minutes was sufficient) as well as the private, personal practice R' Yosef Dov HaLevi Soloveitchik (1903-1993) even though he paskened one only needed to wait 30 minutes after natural sunset in New York and Boston.</ref> | ||
