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Alaska Adventure: The Million $ Question on the International Dateline {Torah Illuminated Series}

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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

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foreign [Music] question regarding the International Date Line for a fuller understanding of the subject I refer you to the earlier class that we gave on the subject but here's the executive summary there's a well-known macholicus between khazainish holds the International Day line is 90 holds the International Day line is 90 degrees east of ushalayim it runs through Russia Philippines Indonesia and Australia while the opinion is International Day line is 144.8 degrees longitude West this line is exactly parallel to yerushalayim so on a globe yerushalayim is on one side exactly parallel is International Date Line according in our previous presentation we in our previous presentation we introduced the concept of greira regarding the International Date Line regarding Mainland Australia even though only the West Coast of Australia is past the day line according to the khazanesh nevertheless all of Australia I'm sure is the same Shabbos and the reason for that is we say Guerrera we say that once part of the continent is considered the next day the entire

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  7. 3:04the east well then why Boy by Australia do we pull the majority of the content…
  8. 3:34why it would be that Mainland Alaska is pulled to the east regarding the Dateline and…

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