Happy New Year!
[I]Rosh Hashanah[/I], the Jewish New Year which was celebrated worldwide earlier this week commencing at sundown, Wednesday, September 8, marks the year 5,771 in the Jewish calendar. Accordingly, Year One commenced when God created Adam and Eve, which occurred on the Gregorian calendar in 3,761 B.C. But just as the Jewish calendar has a beginning, so too does it have an end, which is at the conclusion of the year 6,000, a.k.a. 2,239 A.D., or 229 years from now.The year 6,000, as the last in the Jewish calendar, stems from the belief that it took God six days to create the universe, where one day in creation equates to 1,000 human years. The 6,000 year calendar, therefore, and the belief that on the dawning of the seventh day, October 7, 6,001, the calendar ends, equates to the end of world, when God will return to take back all that He created.
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