Friday the 27th didn't exist on our ship as we crossed the International Date Line. But Shabbat services must go on, so after a short meeting of the Synagogue at Sea Ritual Committee everyone agreed that Thursday night would be better than Saturday night to celebrate Shabbat. My philosophy professor at HUC-JIR Dr Alvin Reines (who wrote Polydoxy) always said, you should celebrate shabbat on any day that was convenient for you. He was right! We'll gain back the day when we cross back from Japan to Alaska and get another day. I recall two years ago traveling back from Japan enroute to Hawaii where we observed two days of Yom Kippur--the Ritual Committee wisely decided to only observe the first day lest we have an incredibly slow fast!
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