<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-monospace; ">: >>An eis is a time that comes according to a prescheduled appointment,<br>: >>ready or not. It is a point in a shanah, in cyclic time that runs its<br>: >>celestial heartbeat regardless of human action. A zeman is a landmark in<br>: >>the course of progression.<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">I believe that "zman" is a date or a season and "eis" is the time of day. </span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"><br></span></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;">As I see it, zman defines eis. Another way of looking at it: Eis is Universalistic</span></font></span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;">and Zman is Particularistic</span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-monospace; ">.</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">ri</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><br></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-monospace; "><br></span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><br></font></div></div></body></html>