Re: master 9b762c35a1: Add Sefirot to Omer counting

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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

We are miscommunicating.  The holidays listed in the Emacs Calendar do
NOT describe things to _do_ on that day.  Not even the religious ones.

"Christmas" does not state what you should do on that day.  "Easter"
does not.  "Yom Kippur" does not.  "Chanukkah" does not.  "Eid el
fitr" does not.  "Martin Luther King Day" does not.  Those holidays
are associated with customs, but what we state in the Emacs calendar
is the holiday name only, NOT customs.

Sometimes we can see a relationship between the name of a holiday and
a way of celebrating it, but the holiday name is not instructions for
what to do.

I believe my criterion

  > > 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.

would not call for removing anything that is included now.  If you think it
would call for removing something, what precisely?



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