[Edited on September 23, 2014 at 3:55 PM. Reason : -]

9/23/2014 3:53:03 PM

Jewanna party tonight?

9/23/2014 4:48:47 PM

JEWISH CALENDAR

HAS ALREADY ARRIVED THE YEAR 2000

WATCH YOUR BACK, WATCH YOUR BACK, WATCH YOUR BACK

9/23/2014 4:59:41 PM

P.S. That album came out in '97, making it 17 years old. And that song refers to a Wu-Tang song that came out in '94, which itself is 20 years old.

9/23/2014 5:01:22 PM

9/23/2014 5:07:54 PM

Why does it start at 5775? What do they call years before 5775?
Also, this is blasphemous to Christians.

9/23/2014 8:56:45 PM

WHat are you talking about? It counts up.

2000, 2001, 2002...2013, 2014

on the Hebrew Calendar starting in the fall were

5761, 5762, 5763...5774, 5775

PALINDROME YEAR!

9/23/2014 9:33:21 PM

there weren't no Jews in 3000 BC

9/23/2014 10:43:13 PM

so will there be parties for this or is it all family/prayer? if so, what night are the parties?

9/23/2014 11:00:35 PM

^^ i meant why does it start 5775 years ago, what came before 5775 years ago...

9/24/2014 12:32:08 AM

^
I wasn't responding to your comment...I was just saying there weren't any Jews in Jew-Year 1. Or Jew-Year 1500, for that matter.

I actually agree with you. I'd like to know WTF happened in ~ 3750 B.C. that inaugurated the Jewish calendar.

9/24/2014 12:48:28 AM

Ahem.

BCE

[Edited on September 24, 2014 at 2:35 AM. Reason : And Creation of Man: http://ohr.edu/ask_db/ask_main.php/216/Q5/]

9/24/2014 2:34:19 AM

It's the beginning of human kind. Since some Christians believe humans were created on day 6 of existence, that's where the "young earth" theory comes from.

9/24/2014 3:02:38 PM

So Jews think the world didn't exist 6000 years ago?

I thought only those wacko bible thumpers thought that.

9/24/2014 5:38:23 PM

Actually wacko Torah-thumpers believe that literally too, but their reckoning (based on Maimonides in the late 12th century CE) is a little different from Bishop James Ussher's (mid 17th century).

9/24/2014 6:47:28 PM

Here's the reason why Jews don't believe the world is so young.

The world was created in 6 days, on the 7th day, G-d rested.

The sun and the moon were created on day 4.

Without a sun and a moon, there would be no way to know what was day and what was night. Therefor, those first seven "days" couldn't have meant 24 hours as we know them know. A day could have been millions or billions of years.

9/24/2014 7:42:48 PM

So the earth is older than the sun. Got it.

9/24/2014 7:52:41 PM

May you be inscribed...

9/24/2014 9:27:01 PM

^^It could mean that from the earth's surface you couldn't see the sun until that moment, which makes sense with all the gasses in our atmosphere that hadn't cooled yet.

9/25/2014 12:52:08 PM

well then, that would mean that the sun and moon were not created on day 4, but only became visible on day 4. and this is silly.

9/25/2014 12:54:16 PM

I'm Krallum and I approved this message.

[Edited on September 25, 2014 at 2:48 PM. Reason : :^)]

9/25/2014 2:40:02 PM

9/26/2014 1:44:13 PM

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9/26/2014 4:51:14 PM