Tonight is the start of the Jewish Year - Rosh Hashana. In our rabbi's sermon tonight, among many other things, he mentioned the significance of this year, which is not what I thought it was.
I had always thought that the year was supposedly created 5768 years ago, but no - at the time that the calendar was created, the earth was known to be far older than five or six thousand years old. Year zero was chosen as the time of the development of writing, because with writing, information could be stored and passed down from one generation to the next.
I think that's pretty cool, and pretty pragmatic. Who wants to date their check January 3, 4,453,326,339?
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