That's a lot of effort to do nothing.
Does anyone know if there is some significance to it being calculated on Tuesday? Since Shabbat is from Friday to Saturday I would have picked Sunday or Monday.
Does anyone know if there is some significance to it being calculated on Tuesday? Since Shabbat is from Friday to Saturday I would have picked Sunday or Monday.
Note that assuming UTC reference point you need to bleed into sunday: Kiribati is on UTC+14, and you need to wait until some time after sunset (stars should be visible).
Though that makes me wonder how shabbat works in northerly latitude, how does shabbat work within the arctic circle?
It also means one can pray the afternoon, evening, and morning prayers one after the other.
Only if you exclude the creative and entertainment value of this work. In which case you have described most art.
i.e. there's a concept that if one is going to get on a boat that is going to be sailing over the sabbath, one should get on sunday-tuesday. not wed-friday (saturday would obviously be an issue).
if i had to guess, that is the logic here.