Re: master 9b762c35a1: Add Sefirot to Omer counting

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: ecbrown@ericcbrown.com, enometh@meer.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 09 May 2022 19:20:09 -0400
> 
>   > > The biblical references for the Parashat HaShavua and its Haftorah are
>   > > definitely religious in nature.
> 
>   > And the Hebrew calendar itself isn't?
> 
> It has to do with religion to some extent, but the crucial thing is
> that it is a calendar.  It consists of names of days.

I think it consists of much more than that.

>   > The proposal was NOT to cite those texts in Emacs, the proposal was
>   > just to _name_ them.
> 
> I think we're using the word "cite" with two different meanings, both
> valid.  We're talking about including in Emacs the names of certain biblical
> texts, right?
> 
>                                            Where do we draw the line?
> 
> The natural place would be between
> (1) identifications/names of specific days, and
> (2) specific things some groups customarily DO on specific named days.
> The first is part of the calendar; the second is an adjunct used with
> the calendar.

That'd mean any holiday should be excluded, since holidays almost
always are "specific things some groups customarily DO on specific
named days".

I think this is too radical a criterion.