When Does Shabbat End?: Difference between revisions
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===Shaot Zmaniyot=== | ===Shaot Zmaniyot=== | ||
*Others interpret Rabbeinu Tam slightly differently and state that Tzeit HaKochavim occurs not 72 natural minutes but 72 <u>halachic</u> minutes (1.2 halachic hours per Sha'ot Zemaniot)<ref>72 mins/(60 mins/hr) = 1.2 halachic hours. <br>To determine how much time this is in natural time, divide the total number of minutes of sunlight that occurred that day (dawn to sunset) by 12, yielding the amount of minutes in an halachic hour on that particular day. Multiply the solution by 1.2 to determine how many minutes after natural sunset Shabbat should end.</ref> after natural sunset. <ref>This was the custom of | *Others interpret Rabbeinu Tam slightly differently and state that Tzeit HaKochavim occurs not 72 natural minutes but 72 <u>halachic</u> minutes (1.2 halachic hours per Sha'ot Zemaniot)<ref>72 mins/(60 mins/hr) = 1.2 halachic hours. <br>To determine how much time this is in natural time, divide the total number of minutes of sunlight that occurred that day (dawn to sunset) by 12, yielding the amount of minutes in an halachic hour on that particular day. Multiply the solution by 1.2 to determine how many minutes after natural sunset Shabbat should end.</ref> after natural sunset. <ref>This was the custom of Minsk, based on a letter from the Chofetz Chaim (Dated winter 1916) copied in the [https://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=51651&st=&pgnum=105 Sefer Birur Halacha Tinyana p. 95], as well as the position of Rav Ovadia Yosef (Yalkut Yosef 293:3, Zmanim K'Halacha, page 43).</ref> | ||
===Fixed Minutes=== | ===Fixed Minutes=== | ||
