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Re: Exotic with minyanim
« Reply #20 on: March 25, 2019, 09:14:54 AM »


Still worth a visit for a couple days though.
True but if you're under the impression that you're going to an exotic, Asian place, you're going to be disappointed.

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Re: Exotic with minyanim
« Reply #21 on: March 25, 2019, 09:18:19 AM »
Yup
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Re: Exotic with minyanim
« Reply #22 on: March 25, 2019, 09:24:06 AM »
For travel one can usually be creative and do hops.
Hopping to Asia in order to get minyanim seems extremely challenging. If you fly west, you pretty much wouldn't hit anything between the US west coast and Asia. If you fly east, you wouldn't hit anything between Israel and Asia probably (and that's a 10 hr flight).

Because of zones, you'd most likely end up being on the plane for at least 1 Tefillah. Maybe if you connect in TLV, there would be a minyan on the plane.

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Re: Exotic with minyanim
« Reply #23 on: March 25, 2019, 11:02:52 AM »
Yes, unless you're not concerned about losing a day. Then you can hop from YVR or other west coast hubs to asia/australia between tefilot.

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Re: Exotic with minyanim
« Reply #24 on: March 25, 2019, 11:19:39 AM »
Yes, unless you're not concerned about losing a day. Then you can hop from YVR or other west coast hubs to asia/australia between tefilot.
How? You'd be crossing the date line, so anytime you leave, you'll land the next day. Is there a specific flight to asia/Australia that doesn't have that problem?

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Re: Exotic with minyanim
« Reply #25 on: March 25, 2019, 12:22:32 PM »
Brooklyn sounds exotic?

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Re: Exotic with minyanim
« Reply #26 on: March 25, 2019, 12:28:35 PM »
Brooklyn sounds exotic?

There are some places where you can have Shachris, Mincha and Maariv minyanim almost simultaneously, that must be quite exotic.  ;D
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Re: Exotic with minyanim
« Reply #27 on: March 25, 2019, 12:35:07 PM »
There are some places where you can have Shachris, Mincha and Maariv minyanim almost simultaneously, that must be quite exotic.  ;D
Meh. We had that in Antarctica.
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Re: Exotic with minyanim
« Reply #28 on: March 25, 2019, 12:35:53 PM »
Meh. We had that in Antarctica.
Yea, Antarctica isn't that exotic
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Re: Exotic with minyanim
« Reply #29 on: March 25, 2019, 12:49:44 PM »
Meh. We had that in Antarctica.

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Re: Exotic with minyanim
« Reply #30 on: March 25, 2019, 12:51:39 PM »
Yea, Antarctica isn't that exotic

Only exotic part is the Sub Zero (celsius) Mikvah dip. But after all, OP didn't inquire about Mikvah, only about 3x minyanim.
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Re: Exotic with minyanim
« Reply #31 on: March 25, 2019, 06:52:20 PM »
How? You'd be crossing the date line, so anytime you leave, you'll land the next day. Is there a specific flight to asia/Australia that doesn't have that problem?
Of course you're correct and you will always lose a day flying over the date line. But if you didn't have the opportunity to daven the tefilot then you didn't really miss a minyan. You just had a 6 day week.

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Re: Exotic with minyanim
« Reply #32 on: March 25, 2019, 06:54:57 PM »
Of course you're correct and you will always lose a day flying over the date line. But if you didn't have the opportunity to daven the tefilot then you didn't really miss a minyan. You just had a 6 day week.
But you're on the plane for 13 hours. At some point you are likely to experience a sunrise or sunset.

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Re: Exotic with minyanim
« Reply #33 on: March 26, 2019, 12:59:39 AM »
Hands-down Panama. Daven shacharis, pick up an awesome breakfast, head out to a rainforest adventure, back for Mincha-Maariv and gourmet dinner. Next day repeat but go to an island in the Caribbean. Next day repeat but go to your own private island in the Pacific (yes,back in time for mincha), next day repeat but tour the Canal, etc., etc. and Minyanim aren’t dependent on tourists and restaurants rival the best of NY and Israel.

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Re: Exotic with minyanim
« Reply #34 on: March 26, 2019, 01:08:50 AM »
Hands-down Panama. Daven shacharis, pick up an awesome breakfast, head out to a rainforest adventure, back for Mincha-Maariv and gourmet dinner. Next day repeat but go to an island in the Caribbean. Next day repeat but go to your own private island in the Pacific (yes,back in time for mincha), next day repeat but tour the Canal, etc., etc. and Minyanim aren’t dependent on tourists and restaurants rival the best of NY and Israel.
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Re: Exotic with minyanim
« Reply #35 on: March 26, 2019, 05:15:29 AM »
But you're on the plane for 13 hours. At some point you are likely to experience a sunrise or sunset.
Nope. It's like flying TLV - EWR. The flight is about 12hrs but you go back 7 time zones. So you can leave about midnight and arrive in plenty of time for Shacharis. The west coast to the east coast of Asia is a 8 time zone difference so a similar experience - depending on specific scheduling - but it's doable.

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Re: Exotic with minyanim
« Reply #36 on: March 26, 2019, 07:24:38 AM »
Nope. It's like flying TLV - EWR. The flight is about 12hrs but you go back 7 time zones. So you can leave about midnight and arrive in plenty of time for Shacharis. The west coast to the east coast of Asia is a 8 time zone difference so a similar experience - depending on specific scheduling - but it's doable.
And the way back?

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Re: Exotic with minyanim
« Reply #37 on: March 26, 2019, 09:28:09 AM »
Keep going in the same direction. For example leave HKG at midnight Arrive FRA 6am

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Re: Exotic with minyanim
« Reply #38 on: March 26, 2019, 11:26:30 AM »
Easy solution.
Travel with 9 other men (and a Torah).

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Re: Exotic with minyanim
« Reply #39 on: March 26, 2019, 11:49:17 AM »
Real easy