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  • From: "Tony Costa" <tmcos AT hotmail.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Fwd: (LtM) 3 Days and 3 Nights
  • Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 07:00:06 PDT


Dear Friends,

I was wondering if any of you have any comments on the dialogue below on the question of the Jewish reckoning of time. The question here is whether a part of a day was regarded as the whole day. Does anyone have any insight the Talmudic reference to the "onah"? Many thanks.

Tony Costa, B.A.
University of Toronto


>YOU ARE CAUGHT UP IN A LITERAL
>UNDERSTANDING OF THE 3 DAYS AND 3 NIGHTS.

I think there is good evidence to take this literally because the Jewish
system of counting days was based on these 12 hour spans (onah). There
was a "night span" and a "day span". The reference for this in the
Yerushalmi Talmud is Sabbat 9:3. In the Babylonian Talmud the reference
is 86a - 87a. Even in Genesis 1 it say that EVENING and MORNING were the
first day. A day was considered to have 2 parts. The evening was
followed by the night span (onah) the morning was followed by the day
span (onah).

>THE JEWS REGARDED A PART OF THE
>DAY AS ITS WHOLE.

What documentation is there for this? In the Talmud it says that a part
of an "onah" which is a 12 hour span either from 6am to 6pm or else 6pm
to 6am can be regarded as a whole of it (meaning a whole SPAN). From
this statement I have seen people say that a part of a DAY was regarded
as a WHOLE day (24 hours). But in my understanding that is not the
context. It actually says "part of a span is equivalent to the whole of
it".



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