When Does Shabbat End?: Difference between revisions
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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. | 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 Brisk, based on a letter from the Chofetz Chaim brought in the Sefer Brirur Halacha Tinyana, as well as the position of Rav Ovadiah Yosef (Yalkut Yosef 293:3, Zmanim K'Halacha, page 43) </ref> | </ref> after natural sunset. <ref>This was the custom of Brisk, based on a letter from the Chofetz Chaim brought in the Sefer Brirur Halacha Tinyana, as well as the position of Rav Ovadiah Yosef (Yalkut Yosef 293:3, Zmanim K'Halacha, page 43) </ref> | ||
*There are those fundamentally agree with Rabbeinu Tam's 4 mil opinion, but define a mil as more than 18 minutes. Some define a mil as 22.5 minutes, making Tzeit HaKochavim 90 minutes after sunset. Others define a mil as 24 minutes, making Shabbat end 96 minutes after sunset.<ref>96 minutes- Satmar Rebbe (Zemirot Divrei Yoel) and Shu"t Beit Avi (3:117)</ref> Finally, some of those of who | *There are those fundamentally agree with Rabbeinu Tam's 4 mil opinion, but define a mil as more than 18 minutes. Some define a mil as 22.5 minutes, making Tzeit HaKochavim 90 minutes after sunset. Others define a mil as 24 minutes, making Shabbat end 96 minutes after sunset.<ref>96 minutes- Satmar Rebbe (Zemirot Divrei Yoel) and Shu"t Beit Avi (3:117)</ref> Finally, some of those of who hold of a 24 minute mil maintain Tzeit HaKochavim occurs two hours after sunset. <ref>Uvdot V'Hanhagot L'Beit Brisk (Vol. 4, page 54) in the name of the Brisker Rav. This position is based on the Rambam's position that a mil is 24 minutes and on those who maintain there are not four but five mil for Tzeit HaKochavim. | ||
24 mins/mil * 5 mil= 120 mins</ref> | 24 mins/mil * 5 mil= 120 mins</ref> | ||
