<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Zev Sero <<a href="mailto:zev@sero.name">zev@sero.name</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
But the Seder Olam seems to use a<br>
0-origin calendar that starts from Adam's creation. <font color="#888888"><br>
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Zev Sero </font></blockquote></div><br>Tangentially it is the about this point that makes me conclude that our calendar is based upon the lenght of Adam Harishon's lifespan. And that if you allow for a non-literal first 6 days the age of the world is not addressed at all ONLY the age of humanity! <br>
<br>So one can be a 100% ma'min in my estimation by accepting 5768 as the age of Adam and the age of the so-called universe as ????<br><br>The reason I reject a liteal 24-hour day for the first 6 days is that by the Torah's OWN account the Sun/Moon/Stars/Plents [iow our clanedrical system!] was not created until day 4. Which to me bespeaks a non-24 hour day to begin with. Of course itt could mean a 2-second day, just as much as it could mean a 2 billlion year day. the point is OUR time-paradigm simply did not exist yet until at least the end of day 4.<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br><a href="mailto:RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com">RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com</a><br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a>