Good holidays to my fellow Jews who are welcoming in the new year of 5771.
Of course, there’s always that annoying first few days when you’re still writing 5770 on your checks…
PAD
Good holidays to my fellow Jews who are welcoming in the new year of 5771.
Of course, there’s always that annoying first few days when you’re still writing 5770 on your checks…
PAD
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Shanna Tova! Break out the apples and honey.
Shana tova, looking forward to seeing you at NYCC! Hope this year is even sweeter for you and your family and the world.
5771?
Crud, we really have NO excuse for not having flying cars now. At least with the Roman calendar we can say “oh, we’ve only been at it for two millennia, we really feel we can have the bugs worked out in another millennium or so.”
Man, we’re slackers.
shana tova u’metuka!
(Don’t joke about the writing 5771 thing on checks… I actually DO have to use the Hebrew calendar on a regular basis… it does happen. Oy.)
Happy New Year!! Mazel Tov. (It looks like maybe I’m supposed to say ‘Shana Tova’, but I don’t know what that means, so I went with the phrase I already knew instead. Hope that’s okay.)
Do you have any resolutions?
Did your computer remember to reset its calendar at sundown?
Our cell group yesterday made Rosh Hashanah the subject of our studies, as well as the various Feast days that are fast approaching. It was a great discussion.
Be careful, you may have to prepare for the y5.8k bug in a few years 🙂
Also, shouldn’t it technically been “Buck Rogers in the 62nd (or 63rd) Century?
L’shanah Tovah to all! May the new year be a good year for us all – M.O.T. or not – and hopefully, good things will come our way!
“Your checks” … it’s an old joke, but it still works.
Happy new year.
PAD said, “Of course, there’s always that annoying first few days when you’re still writing 5770 on your checks…”
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Cute joke, yes, but it raises an interesting question. If someone’s religious beliefs were such that it involved using the calendar of his or her faith as part of his or her observances of that faith, would he or she be permitted to use 5771, or 3523 or 8412 or whatever on checks and other such documents?
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I’d think they would be, under the First Amendment; but maybe with 2010 included for the sake of the bureaucrats, computer systems, etc.
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Of course, I’m speaking in purely theoretical terms. In actuality, in our current cultural climate that at times seems to sway toward xenophobia, there would be such a hue and cry.
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Anyway, happy belated Rosh Hashanah.
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Rick