A Moment of Peace

The Doomsday Clock a barometer of nuclear danger for the past 55 years has been moved one minute further away from the "midnight hour".

The Talmud–Book of Law begins with a lengthy explanation about midnight since the day begins at night; the Torah records at the end of each of the Six Days of Creation there was night and there was day–a complete day. The idea of night is stridently different from the day time when middle can be ascertained through the sun.

According to the Talmud the night is divided into three parts with midnight happening in the middle of the second part, but according to the Cabala the night has four parts and midnight is the thread of Compassion. The Midrash-Book of Metaphor recounts how King Dovid would awake at midnight by means of his harp and the north winds which until today blows at midnight.

Recognizing that the first half of the night was connected with Gevorah/Severity, 2000 years ago people slept during the first half of the night and then awoke to begin a new day with study and prayer, but Roman midnight is one of annihilation, Armageddon and a futureless future.

While secular time moves backwards, away from destruction, spiritual time moves forward into the future.