[Avodah] A New Mitzvah at the Seder

[Akiva Miller]

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R' Danny Schoemann wrote:

> ... it's also not unreasonable to assume that they used some (no
> longer known?) instrument to calculate midnight and then announce
> it city-wide close to the actual time. or they used the stars as
> per this - https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/a/1105

To me, it is obvious that the ancients *must* have had some sort of way of
knowing when midnight occurred. If they didn't, then why would Moshe Rabenu
have worried that the Mitzrim might accuse Makas Bechoros of being
off-schedule?

Akiva Miller
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