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How Do You Keep Shabbos When the Sun Doesn’t Set?

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Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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  1. 0:00Or anywhere in the Arctic or Antarctic circles for that matter. Okay, as a general rule…
  2. 0:32back to the moderator. He says this is really a question for Rabbi Ralofsky, it's a…
  3. 1:03>> [snorts] >> But um But this one I happen to have come across once. There's…
  4. 1:33north there's no day and there's no night. In the summer the sun doesn't set. And…
  5. 2:04where there are from people and he was besides a rub, he was also a mile.…
  6. 2:34community and you use their zmanim. Yeah? There was an old joke they said they sent…
  7. 3:05from, Cape Canaveral, I imagine, Cape Kennedy, whatever it's called now, you know, wherever you you…
  8. 3:35you have to take the amount of time and divide it into 12 sha'os zmaniyos, 12…
  9. 4:07you are. Cuz this is always tricky particularly when you're flying from Eretz Yisrael to America…
  10. 4:38So uh that's a great app. Anyway, this is David Elaloufsky with our question and answer…

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