Q&A: Robots, Trauma & Science - Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

So in the north pole and south pole right you have times where there's no sunset or sun right so you know in those circumstances it's not possible to do a lot of the time mitzvah so practically speaking are Jews not allowed be going to the north pole or south pole or even you know are they not allowed to you know go to the moon or go to know go to the moon or go to for this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Those are very very good questions. In a way the answers would be different depending on each of the individual places. Let's first uh take the places on earth the north pole, the south pole uh where you can have six months of darkness and then six without light and then six months of light uh without darkness. And uh the truth is even below the Arctic Circle even uh in you know when you're close to it doesn't have to be the north pole mammish you know you can have these these situations even can have these these situations even before you get there. So there is a many many different opinions as to what you do. Uh there are some opinions that basically say that if the definition of a day is um a sun rising and a sun setting then in a sense uh the day would be six months long meaning you wouldn't keep shabas at all and then uh you know basically you'd have to have shabas every 42 years basically you'd have six cycles of six months or whatever it

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