helek
English
Alternative forms
- chelek
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈheɪlɪk/, /ˈxeɪlɪk/
Noun
helek (plural halakim)
- (Judaism) A unit of time equal to the eighteenth part of a minute (3⅓ seconds)
- 1992, L.E. Doggett, Calendars, in P. Kenneth Seidelman (editor), Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac (page 585)
- For calendrical calculations, the day begins at 6 P.M., which is designated 0 hours. Hours are divided into 1080 halakim; thus one helek is 3 1/3 seconds.
- 2004, Sheldon Epstein; Bernard Dickman; Yonah Wilamowsky, “A 5765 Anomaly”, in Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought, volume 38, number 3, page 585:
- By some estimates the mean lunation was actually 29.5 days and 793 halakim somewhere around the beginning of the Common Era.
- 1992, L.E. Doggett, Calendars, in P. Kenneth Seidelman (editor), Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac (page 585)
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