What year is it in the Jewish calendar?

Question

When does it change?

Has something to do with the moon, right?

Answer 1

5767.

Rosh Hashanah is the one for numbering, but there are others.

Yes, and roughly the new moon nearest the autumnal equinox. The first day of Tishri. The Judaic calendar is based on lunar months, and day begins at either sunset or 6 PM, depending on which observance one follows.

Answer 2

The Jewish calendar is based on three astronomical phenomena: the rotation of the Earth about its axis (a day); the revolution of the moon about the Earth (a month); and the revolution of the Earth about the sun (a year). These three phenomena are independent of each other, so there is no direct correlation between them. On average, the moon revolves around the Earth in about 29½ days. The Earth revolves around the sun in about 365¼ days, that is, about 12.4 lunar months.

The Gregorian calendar used by most of the world has abandoned any correlation between the moon cycles and the month, arbitrarily setting the length of months to 28, 30 or 31 days.

The Jewish calendar, however, coordinates all three of these astronomical phenomena. Months are either 29 or 30 days, corresponding to the 29½-day lunar cycle. Years are either 12 or 13 months, corresponding to the 12.4 month solar cycle.

Answer 3

11 Tevet 5767 is today's date on the Jewish calendar

Answer 4

don't know!