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In article <3E00BF83.3060301@most.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com>, Wes Groleau <wwgrol@most.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> writes:
> Robert A Duff wrote:
>> I believe it calls the seventh day "sabbath".
> 
> That it does.  But to insist that our Saturday
> is exactly a multiple of seven days from that
> Sabbath is to insist that the Jews never lost count
> through all their dispersions and returnings.

Dispersions are good, because you get to compare two independent
time sources.  There are no Talmudic calendar disputes recorded,
are there ?

So I suppose we can conclude that no group of Jews in the Diaspora
spent any significant portion of time moving at anything close to
the speed of light :-)