[Avodah] zmanim

Micha Berger micha at aishdas.org
Thu Dec 7 11:12:14 PST 2017


On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 05:49:36AM +0000, Rich, Joel via Avodah wrote:
: I was wondering whether this close watch was a subset of a broader
: need of man modern man to have exactitude in life versus living with
: gray...

Or maybe we were always mechuyavim to be as precise as possible.

: wondering whether the advent of the railroad table approach now requires
: us to halachically follow that exactness rather than that the "it looks
: right to me" approach of Chazal? Thoughts?

Li nir'eh there is value to the "in sync with nature" approach of Chazal
that we lose when we think about clock time rather than the cycles of
the sun (a/k/a the earth's spin).

Much the way we lose a lot of what the yamim tovim mean because we aren't
living in agrarian communities, and don't feel the joy of new wheat and
barley when we celebrate our birth as a people, or the joy of bringing
in the year's fruit when we celebrate how HQBH sustained us in the midbar.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha


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