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Reply Mon 6 Sep, 2004 01:34 pm
The Christians date their calendar from the birth of christ, the Muslims from the flight of Muhammed from Mecca to Medina(622 AD).What do the jews date their calender from?
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Reply Mon 6 Sep, 2004 01:40 pm
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Numbering of Jewish Years
The year number on the Jewish calendar represents the number of years since creation, calculated by adding up the ages of people in the Bible back to the time of creation. However, this does not necessarily mean that the universe has existed for only 5600 years as we understand years. Many Orthodox Jews will readily acknowledge that the first six "days" of creation are not necessarily 24-hour days (indeed, a 24-hour day would be meaningless until the creation of the sun on the fourth "day"). For a fascinating (albeit somewhat defensive) article by a nuclear physicist showing how Einstein's Theory of Relativity sheds light on the correspondence between the Torah's age of the universe and the age ascertained by science, see The Age of the Universe.


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