Friday, September 22, 2006

Jews preparing for New Year


According to the Torah, God created the world and the first human being precisely 5767 years ago.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

And He did it in 6 days

Physiocrat said...

The Hebrew word is Yom. It is not defined as having 24 clock hours. The term can be used metaphorically and clearly is.

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