Hello Everyone
I am pleased to welcome you to this series of classes “Between Sunset and Nightfall.” This period of time is called בין השמשות in the Halachic literature.
Twilight is a mysterious time in popular culture. A prominent leader in the American civil rights movement, Howard Thurman, said about twilight: “Twilight is a time of pause when Nature changes her guard.”
Twilight is neither here nor there. It hard to define what it is, perhaps it is more a question of what it is not.
Today we will begin a discussion of how twilight is regarded in the Halacha.
I wish to thank the family of Stephen R. Kaye for endowing this series of classes.