On motzei shabbos, Ohr 9 Tishrei, (Sept. 26th to 27th) Israel will move from daylight savings time to standard time at 2:00am, moving our clocks one hour back. This is the annual practice, on the eve of Yom Kippur, to permit ending the fast at an earlier hour of the day.
Daylight savings time begins on the last Friday prior to April 2nd and ends on the last Sunday before 10 Tishrei, Yom Kippur.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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What a shame that the people in Eretz Yisroel have one hour less of the day on yom Kippur to Daven. I am sure there are so many there who wish the day would be longer. Who wants this one day a year when we are so close to Hashem to end? There is so much to Daven for and so little time as is.
Er, they don’t have an hour less to daven. Their day is still 24 hours long, and Yom Kippur is still about 25 and 1/4 hours long, just like ours.
It’s just that it begins and ends earlier in the day’s clock hours.
It’s EARLIER, not FEWER.
To 26 estates: a person fasts the same duration, regardless of the official time. If you desire more davening time, there are many places that provide that option in the form of starting earlier (, which would be old time), whether in NY or Israel.
Is a fast purposely shortened by a human change in time a true fast? When man changes the time to permit ending the fast an hour earlier, man not only cheats himself, man cheats Hashem! We need to leave things as Hashem made them and stop trying to change things to suit ourselves.
I do agree with #1. The Zionists did this in order to make Yom Kippur ‘lighter’. They see it as a great service to the religious public. However, it is quite the opposite. Yom Kippur is supposed to be difficult, it is supposed to be unpleasant. Making it (seem) ‘shorter’ is against everything Yom Kippur is about.
#1 here in Eretz Yisroel we wake up earlier than you guys so…..
Of course the fast is the same either way.
It makes as much sense as the US changing based on their yuntuf that occurs on Oct. 31.
I KNOW THAT THEIR YOM KIPUR WILL STILL BE OVER 25HOURS BUT WHEN THEY SWITCH THE CLOCK, WILL WE BE 6 HOURS BEHIND OR 5?
CAN SOME ONE TELL ME?
KASIVA VA CHASIMA TOVA
#6, you are completely ignorant about the history of “summer time” in Israel. When it was originally initiated, in the 1980s if I recall, the Hareidi parties fought it tooth and nail. As a compromise, it was agreed that the clock would be set back before Yom Kippur in order to make the fast easier. This was a demand of the Hareidim. The secular parties wanted to make summer time last much longer.
You make a fool of yourself in your desire to blame the Zionists for everything–this was a demand by Hareidim, lead by their Rabbanim. If you think that the decision was wrong, then you are in essence criticizing the Hareidi Rabbinical leaders of that time.
Gido they will be 6 hour behind us. A gmar chasima tova to all of klal yisroel
#12
AMEN !