Is There Any Reason the Last Digit of the Jewish Year and Last Digit of the Civil Year Are the Same? https://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/history-ideas/2021/01/is-there-any-reason-the-last-digit-of-the-jewish-year-and-last-digit-of-the-civil-year-are-the-same/

From now until next September 6, we will be living in 5781 and 2021. Is that an accident, or is a deeper synchronicity at work?

January 13, 2021 | Philologos

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