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At 4:37 PM,  Unknown said...

Beautiful sight.

 

At 5:31 PM,  Carl in Jerusalem said...

Hayosheiv B'Maariv,

You asked the right guy, because I've been a vathikin (sunrise) guy for the last 16.5 years (and off and on even before that when I was in Israel).

We use hanetz ha'nireh (visible sunrise) to fix the time, which is what you're seeing in the picture. No one in Jerusalem that I know about uses the 'astronomical' sunrise.

For sunset, we have a line on the calendar called 'Shkiya k'ilu Yerushalayim hi mishor' (sunset as if Jerusalem were flat). That time is about five minutes before ordinary sunset.

I understand that in the Beit Shemesh area, there is about a 15-minute difference between astronomical and visible sunrise. Most minyanim that I know of there use visible sunrise.

You might find this site of interest:

http://chaitables.com/

 

At 5:32 PM,  Carl in Jerusalem said...

Hayosheiv B'Maariv,

Sorry, I left one question unanswered. According to the Mishna in Yoma, Barkai was said around the time of aloth ha'shachar (dawn). The word literally means 'morning star.'

 

At 1:16 AM,  Sunlight said...

So beautiful! Makes me want to go visit again!

 

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