4007 AA
All this talk by Yishai about it being '67 again (in the Hebrew counting) reminds me of an old idea of mine.
I think counting according to when Jesus was supposedly born, or crucified, is a bad idea. Otoh, it's hard to go from the present system to the Hebrew one. To go from 2007 to 5767 you have to add 3760. Who can do that in his head, except Chinese people? Very hard.
Saying 'CE' and 'BCE' doesn't do it for me either. The 'C' is still there, and we know what it originally stood for.
So I suggest a third way of counting. We start from Abraham, and we arbitrarily decide that 'Abraham' happened at 2000 BCE. That way, to get what year we are at After Abraham, you just add 2000 to the AD date. So we are now at 4007 AA.
Labels: Gil Ronen
9 Comments:
At May 16, 2007 at 2:16 AM , Pinchas said...
Gil - we should always just go by the Jewish date since creation, period. Then you don't have to convert anything. I know people in Meah Sharim that don't even know this month is May (it's אייר ). Besides Avraham Aveinu was born in 1948 or 1812 years before the date the world calculates 2007 from. In other words it is 3819 A.A. not 4007 A.A... :)
At May 16, 2007 at 5:55 AM , גיל רונן said...
Kaboosh - there goes my idea, in a ball of flame.
I guess you're right, I mean the holidays all go by the Hebrew calendar anyways.
Still, when did the American Revolution happen? Easy - 4776 AA.
It can come in handy.
At May 16, 2007 at 6:08 AM , Pinchas said...
4776 A.A.? Um... err... Gil... (Nevermind, it's not important.) :)
At May 16, 2007 at 6:58 AM , Josh M. said...
What ever happened to dating from the rise of the Greek Empire, as per the gemara on AZ 9a?
At May 16, 2007 at 8:39 AM , גיל רונן said...
3776! You are right! You win a AA battery!
At May 16, 2007 at 8:40 AM , גיל רונן said...
Josh, please enlighten me, I don't know what you are talking about.
At May 16, 2007 at 8:42 AM , Pinchas said...
gil - It's all good! :)
At May 16, 2007 at 11:32 AM , Anonymous said...
I just try to keep a Chinese person handy.
At April 2, 2009 at 7:34 PM , Cindy said...
I need to know what the word "Kaboosh" means. My little granddaughter said it, and she says she's never even heard it before. she said it when a big lightning bolt struck and lit up the sky.
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