hopp@nbs-amrf.UUCP (Ted Hopp) (03/16/85)
> When our present calendar was set up it was arranged in such a way > that certain occurrences would not happen. Yom Kippur was always arranged > to not fall out on Friday or Sunday ( because there would be two successive > days when food could not be prepared ). > > Eliyahu Teitz. I believe there is a much more important reason: if Yom Kippur were to fall on Friday or Sunday, there would be too long a period during which the dead could not be buried. -- Ted Hopp {seismo,umcp-cs}!nbs-amrf!hopp