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Zmanim-WP Guide: Calculating End-of-Day Zmanim

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If you’ve been following this blog, you’ll know that I’ve been working on my Zmanim-WP plugin for WordPress for a while now. This blog series is designed to help you dig deeper into the plugin and understand what it does, how it works, and whether it’s right for your needs.

“Dancing in the Dark”

If part 1 was focused on the zmanim for the start of the day; and part 2 looked afternoon times, it stands to reason that today we’ll check out the shortcodes that help calculate the end of the day.

  • Start of Bain HaShmashot ([zman_bain]) – The time between sunset (“shkia”, in halachic terms) and night (“tzait hakochavim”) is sort of a halachic no-man’s-land, and therefore a lot of things that can only be done during the day (or at night) are no longer permitted. For this reason you need to know when this time is to...

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