• SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip
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    15 hours ago

    This day is not July 1st.

    Numbers is part of the old testament, before the calendar counting the days since Christ. It’s referring to the Jewish calendar instead.

    In Judaism, the year starts on Rosh Hashanah, which usually occurs around mid-September. The first day of the 7th month would be somewhere in March.

    Still doesn’t seem like Easter.

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      13 hours ago

      I don’t care. I will take any excuse to listen to some Madness or the mighty mighty bosstones (ska fanatics please spare me i know the specials and selector exist…)

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      11 hours ago

      Just tell me what day kashrut law permits me to listen to Sublime, and I’ll do it… I have no desire to offend the old gods or the new.

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      13 hours ago

      Actually this is about Rosh Hashanah, which is the first day of the seventh month despite being the beginning of the year. Calendars are fun.

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        13 hours ago

        How is the first day of the seventh month also the beginning of the year on the same calendar?

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          6 hours ago

          Well, you know how the school year starts in September, and the fiscal year starts in July, and the calendar year starts in January, and those are all in the Gregorian calendar? Its sorta like that.

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            6 hours ago

            Okay, walk your logic with us here, buddy…

            In the Jewish calendar, it’s the seventh month, so it isn’t the beginning of the year.

            In the Gregorian calendar, it’s the third month, so it’s not the beginning of the year.

            So which calendar are you using exactly?

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              5 hours ago

              Dude, it’s not my logic. It is literally how this particular calendar works.

              I don’t think it’s too hard for you but it may be too foreign. People tend to underestimate just how different other cultures can be. Just accept that it can be the seventh month and also the new year. Actually, there are four different new years in the Hebrew calendar, and one of them is even in the middle of a month.