probably not time-shifting the holiday
Oct. 2nd, 2014 04:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauradi7dwSaturday the 4th is scheduled to be Yom Kippur. I'm not Jewish, but I started studying Judaism in my late teens and a lot of it stuck. I usually ask for forgiveness (message me if I've wronged you, and we'll figure it out), fast, and occasionally attend some sort of service; for the past several years, the Humanist congregation Kahal B'Raira's evening service. Saturday is usually a very busy day for me, so I had the thought of changing my observance to a different day. Sundown on Friday in New Zealand is a little before breakfast time tomorrow morning here, and I had decided to observe remotely, on NZ time. But the whole "the evening and the morning were the (nth) day" thing is very much ingrained, so I may not shift after all. I'll just drink water (I don't fast to the point of dehydration) and try to fit fasting and serious thoughts around my other activities. Or not. Feeling indecisive about a number of things right now.
Edit: I am not good about geography or time zones, either. Now that NZ is on daylight savings time (it's spring there), they are 17 hours ahead of us, so sunset was at 2 AM our time. If I do the Friday-instead fast, that would be two nights and a day of fast, because it's not worth it to get up at 2 AM for breakfast.
Edit: I am not good about geography or time zones, either. Now that NZ is on daylight savings time (it's spring there), they are 17 hours ahead of us, so sunset was at 2 AM our time. If I do the Friday-instead fast, that would be two nights and a day of fast, because it's not worth it to get up at 2 AM for breakfast.
