Happy New Year!

I almost forgot. And Rosh Hashanah ends in a few hours. . . In the immortal words of Weird Al Yankovic, "Oy gevalt, I'm so ferklempt that I could plotz."

So now we're in the year 5766, counted from . . . ? The beginning of time? I thought we were over 6000 on that count.

Nope. Apparently, Tishri 1 is the sixth day of creation, when Adam got get.

The 6000 must've been a Christian counting.