Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site aecom.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxb!mhuxr!ulysses!unc!mcnc!philabs!aecom!berger From: berger@aecom.UUCP (Mitchell Berger) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Re: Re: when is the Sabbath? Message-ID: <1122@aecom.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Feb-85 22:27:04 EST Article-I.D.: aecom.1122 Posted: Mon Feb 4 22:27:04 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Feb-85 03:48:40 EST References: <852@eisx.UUCP> Organization: Albert Einstein Coll. of Med., NY Lines: 20 > Finally as far as the correct time to begin Shabbat on the North > Pole, I believe that there is a recent responsa on the issue. I > have not seen it and am not familiar with any details (like who > the author is), but I believe that the start time is interpolated > from outside the Arctic circle. Sorry about the obtuseness of > that answer, but my memory for details is poor and I don't > remember anything more than the notion of interpolation/extra- > polation was included in the solution. > > Sam Saal ..!{ihnp4}!eisx!sms I beleive Rav Moshe Feinstein is of the opinion that a line is drawn downward from the point you're standing downward to below the arctic circle. Unless you are standing at the exact loacation of the pole, and are point sized (not mentally) you should have no problem. Rav Ya'akov Kamenetzky holds that in such a position, one should practice according to Jerusalem Time. Glad 2 b f service, michab