In North Greenland distances are measured in sinik, in 'sleeps', the number of nights that a journey requires. It's not a fixed distance. Depending on the weather and the time of year, the number of sinik can vary.

Could this be love?—pure, first love for a shopkeeper's daughter.

In a lengthy essay R. Gaguine explains why in London the Sephardim duchen on the festivals and High Holy Days only and in Amsterdam and Morocco Birkat Kohanim takes place on Shabbat as well as on festivals and High Holy Days.

And vnto Adam he [God] ſaid, Becauſe thou hast hearkened vnto the voice of thy wife [Eve], and haſt eaten of the tree, of which I commaunded thee, ſaying, Thou ſhalt not eate of it: curſed is the ground for thy ſake: in ſorow ſhalt thou eate of it all the dayes of thy life.