[Avodah] RAMBAM on Songs and Using Hebrew

[Zev Sero]

On 19/03/2011 11:38 PM, Micha Berger wrote:

> The Seder Olam's dating places Avraham's birth at 1813 BCE (1948 AM).

Nitpick: the Seder Olam's calendar is two years behind ours; it starts
with a "year zero" at Adam's creation, and the year 1 starts on Adam's
1st birthday, 2 on his 2nd birthday, etc.   Our calendar has no year 0,
and starts the year 1 at the creation of the world on 25 Elul (or if
you like at the hypothetical Rosh Hashana 11.8 months earlier).  Thus,
Adam was created on 1 Tishri in the year 2, and his first birthday was
on 1 Tishri 3.  Therefore in our calendar Avraham was born in 1950,
and in the Gregorian calendar it was 1811 BCE.


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