Lot 219
HaYomem BeKadur HaAretz and Chazon Ish Kuntress 18 Sha'ot – A Polemic on the International Date Line
1. Sefer HaYomem BeKadur HaAretz, "which resolves the question of the location of the Jewish Date Line… and establishes the days of the week and Shabbat around the world". Written by Rabbi Yechiel Michl Tokatchinsky, Jerusalem 1943.
[4], 4, 92, [3] pages. 22.5 cm. Good condition, Dry Paper. Original binding.
2. Sefer Chazon Ish Kuntress 18 Sha'ot. [Rabbi Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz]. Jerusalem 1943.
22 Pages. 24 cm. Good condition. Dry paper. Original binding, loose.
In the years of the Holocaust many Jews fled to Japan. According to the Chazon Ish, in Japan, Sunday would be the Shabbat as far as Halacha is concerned. According to Rabbi Y.M. Tokatchinsky, the Halachic Date Line lies in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean close to the International Date Line. This polemic has many halachic ramifications and made a lot of commotion in the Jewish world in its time. More can be found about it in
