What is the Jewish Calendar year thingy?

Question

Like, the world follows A.D. and B.C.
But the Jews follow something else, what is it?
What year is it?

Answer 1

The Jewish calendar is a lunar one and not a solar one. It divides time according to the cycles of the moon. The time from the new moon to the full moon is a cycle. It takes 29 or 30 days to complete a cycle. From the new moon called Hodesh in Hebrew. Hodesh is also the word for month. Twelve of these are a Shana or year. The calendar is adjusted because a solar year is 365 days long and a moon year of 12 months is 354 days. In order to help us catch up an extra month is added on certain years, this is a leap year. Every 19 years there are seven leap years (the third, sixth, eighth, eleventh, fourteenth, seventeenth and nineteenth years). In a leap year a 13th month is added called Adar Sheni (the second Adar).

It is now the Jewish year 5767 and we don't have "BC" or "AD." When referring to history dates and such, we use both the English date and the Hebrew date (in most schools) but we still dont use BC/AD. We use BCE/CE for Before Common Era and Common Era.

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Answer 2

Actually the entire world does not use the "Ad and BC". You are confusing "eras" with calendars.
You are thinking of the Gregorian Calendar. This has only been in use since the 16th century and many did not adopt it until centuries later.
Also, there are numerous calendar systems, e.g. the Chinese calendar, Islamic calendar, the Julian calendar.
So, as to the Jewish calendar... all Jews use the regular calendar but for religious purposes the Jewish calendar is used.
The current year is 5767.

Answer 3

The Jewish calender goes from the supposed day of Creation. It's around 5600 now.

Answer 4

The Jewish calender I saw had the year calculated from creation. It was not Bishop Usher's chronology. I don't recall the year. Your question might be "What year is it according to the Jewish chronology?"

Answer 5

It is from the date of creation! P.S. For those of you that ask how come the scientists claim that the world is billions of years old, some scholars say that because of the flood with the boiling water........ the skeletons might look much older then it actually is

Answer 6

Its a Calender based on the Cycles Of the Moon.

Answer 7

it would be a calendar that is based on a thirty day cycle with no adjustment for leap year and such. 30 days to the month of 360 days in the year.

Answer 8

5767
Lunar months, solar years, so there are several leap months in a 14 year cycle. It's complicated.

Answer 9

5767, from Creation