al@mot.UUCP (Al Filipski) (01/10/85)
Just how literal do you want to be? There seems to be no end to the
amount of casuistry possible. If you consider a "beginning of
Sabbath" for us to be a time congruent MOD 24*7 hours to a "beginning
of Sabbath" for Moses (~6:00 P.M. Friday night in Israel), I think you'll find
(ignoring relativistic effects :-) that the Sabbath begins about 8:00
A.M. Friday morning, Phoenix AZ time. Or, if you say that the Sabbath is
determined by counting local sunsets, what do you do in the Arctic
when there are fewer than 7 per week? Can you miss a Sabbath by
crossing an arbitrary "date line"? Is our idea of what constitutes
a "Saturday" or a "Sunday" the same as Y*H*W*H's and hence is it
meaningful to say that one is the true Sabbath and the other isn't?
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Alan Filipski, UNIX group, Motorola Microsystems, Tempe, AZ U.S.A
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