[Avodah] [Tvunah] St. Petersberg White Night Zmanim

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

>From the web site of R' Asher Weiss's pesaqim
<http://en.tvunah.org/2017/05/22/st-petersberg-white-night-zmanim>.
I was told that they had a similar problem in the summer in Telzh.
Motza"sh was havdalah, melaveh malkah, night seder, shacharis kevasikin,
sleep.

    Tvunah in English
    Beit Midrash for Birurei Halachah Binyan Zion
    Under the Leadership of Maran HaRav Asher Weiss Shlita

    White Night Zmanim

    Questions:
    1. During White Nights here in St. Petersburg we end Shabbat at
    midnight (2:00). This is also the time of alot ashahar. Accordingly,
    there is no opportunity to say a blessing on the candle and eat
    Seudat melawe malka. Question: Is it possible to rely on the opinion
    of rabbi Ovadiya Yoseph that alot ashahar is 72 dakot zmaniet before
    dawn, and accordingly there is a certain night after Chatzot for
    Bracha on the candle and melawe malka?

    2. Can we finish fasts of 17 of Tamuz and the 9th of Av after tzet
    kahovim according Gaon (0:03 and 23:03)?

    Answers:
    1. Since it is already the beginning of the light of the new day and
    hence Alot Hashachar, the bracha on the candle for havdala should not
    be said. However since it is still a few hours before Netz Hachama
    [sunrise] one could be lenient to eat Melave Malka. In fact, with
    regards to Melave Malka one could be lenient and eat before Chatzos,
    as long as 72 minutes have passed since shkiya [even though with
    regards to Melacha one should be machmir until Chatzos].

    2. With regards to ending Rabbinic Fasts, one could rely on the zman
    of Tzais Hakochavim according to Rabeinu Tam [according to the Pri
    Megadim that it is a set time in all places], waiting 72 minutes
    after shkiya.

    [Hebrew meqoros ubi'urim elided.]

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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