[Avodah] 2AM Friday Night

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, July 20, 2007 9:39 am, Yisrael Medad wrote:
: I spotted this item and wondered: if the sun hadn't set, it wasn't
: night, right?
: Or is there any other way to do Shabbat in Fairbanks?

A rleated, but slightly different question...

Is there a minimum shiur for night?

If there is no sunset, within the arctic circle, we have pesaqim about
mapping that to a point that does -- the point of departure, the
nearest qehillah, Y-m, etc... We may not have a single masqanah, but
the subject is well discussed and there are known shitos.

What if there is sunset, but only for a minute or two? Do we follow a
2 minute night, or do we follow the arctic circle pesaq?

What if the sun only sets partway? Does it follow leading edge, the
middle of the sun, the lower edge?

Etc...

Tir'u baTov!
-mi

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