[Avodah] Not Making Kiddush Between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m.

[Sholom Simon]

> But presumably this reason for avoiding a certain hour to make
> Kiddush predates the institution of the secular hour by the
> Babylonians. For a discussion of this see
> http://tinyurl.com/yugh47  and http://tinyurl.com/9rb7r . Thus, if
> doing this is to make sense, the hour should be Shaos Z'manios, not
> (gentile) hours.
>
> Are you implying that there is something inherently true, from a
> halachic standpoint, about using base 60?

No -- I'm saying that there might have been something assumed to be true,
in an astronomical sense, that corresponded to approx 1/24 of a full
(sideral) day.

-- Sholom