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Hey, friends, welcome to the line of fire broadcast.

It is thoroughly Jewish Thursday.

And this Sunday, September 25th, is the beginning of the Jewish New Year.

Now, in biblical times, it is the first day of the seventh month,

the day of the trumpet blasts, the sounding of the shofar, followed 10 days later by Yom Kippur

Day of Atonement, and then five days after that, the week-long celebration of Sukkot Tabernacles.

But as centuries evolved, centuries went on, there were calendar changes,

and this has become the beginning of the Jewish New Year. You say, how'd that happen?

There's debate in terms of exactly what the sequence was, how far back this goes.

But this much we know that by the time of Jesus, there were different

years, different calendrical years. For example, in most countries, you have the school year

is different than the calendar year, right? School year starts end of August, beginning of September,

ends northern around May. that's the school year.

You have a tax year, you know, fiscal year, things like that.

Well, that's what happened.

You had different years in ancient Israel, different new years, and this became the one that was now the new year.

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