ZD: “Shabbos basically lasts 48 hours somewhere on the globe, If you start Shabbos in New Zealand which is about 20 hours ahead of NY and end Shabbos in Hawaii which is 5 hours past NY the total time is about 48 hours”
ZD – that’s a good point and I thought about that as I was posting. I think that it probably doesn’t work that way and it would have to go according to one person’s Shabbos. That is the only way that any of this makes sense.
Granted, you can still ask a lot of questions on the whole concept. Like how do you decide whose Shabbos to go by? And how does time work in Gehinnom anyhow?
My guess is that we are talking about metaphysical concepts that we can’t really understand anyhow, and there may not be answers available to all these questions. Just like we don’t understand much about anything that happens in Olam Haemes…