The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-09-14
HEYEAR $3.50 A. N.
lROSH HASHONA TO BE CELEsRA'
TED THIS WEEK BY
JEWS.
Early Jewish Method of Calculation
Makes Methuselah 70
Instead of $50
Years Old.
(Record Herald

The year 500 will begin Wednes"
|day, ANY one who doubts it need on
lv refer to the Jewish calendar New
Years Day, properly Rosh Hashona,
VIA arrive with Sept. Is, and the Jew
ish residents are preparing for its
celebration.
i The year 500 Ammo Mundi will be
1.-THE eighth of the two hundred ana
lninety-ninth lunar circle OF nineteen
: wears since the creation, according to
IJewjsh reckoning, and it is the four
-lteenth wear of the two hundred and
! third solar cycle of twenty-eight years
lalso counting from creation.
In tracing the probable sources
, hidden in the midst Of prehstor<
times. of the method Of computation
under the Jewish calendar 1t mas
heen found that the first years, in tht
t primitive calendars. were composed
S of five months OF thirty days eacA
+ 1t il also contended that before tn
S five month year was adopted, th'
term wear was applied to one month
{ This meant that the period OF moor
J. cycle was termed year.
l. Methusaleh Loses LaureIs.
Advocates of this theory seek I
0 prove their contention by working on
al the ages of the men first menuone
r. in the Bible. The result is to swee
his laurels for longevity from Methu'
s leh's brow. Methusaleh become
under the system of the moon cycl
N wear far more youthful than man
D. nersons living today Methusaleh
ar record of $50 years is cut down to
t. mere 1884 by these theorists
Similarly Adams 1863 years of lii
calculated at 2912 days, the exact p
Rod of "lunation" or moon yea
works out at 75A years. The oth'
old men of the Bible are reduced
1.-The position of comparatively Juve
lilies.
The next stage in the marking
ltime is supposed to have been the d
L. coyery of the equinoxes in the spril
and autumn when day and night we
exactly of the same length. If
JR would give five months OF thirty da
,E each. On this basis of year OF ]
- DAYS, Abraham's IT'S years are
V duced to Y and Isaac's $50 years
IA. A further stage was the disco
cry that there were really six moo
tic in complete period between
Cd equinoXes.
he Writer Discusses Problem.
it'll In discussing the coming Of the n
HIS wear of 5670, a Jewish writer in
3J Reform Advocate has this to say:
Of ut (referring to the Jewish cal
ing dar YEAR, is all too puzzling for
sis ordinary lay mind but then in truth
is much more puzzling than that. f
or New Year should fall in its sever
month is the least of Its curiosltl
!. Not only is our calendar peculiar;
the is faulty.
and There is a decided kink in its C
lity structon, and the method by VIII
nth the minor or lunar cycles OF ninet'
wears each are adjusted to the sc
Irit, or major cycles of twenty-eight We
and each is not perfect. So much is
ris- so. in fact, that our New Year te
to fall trifle later annually.
'es- The year 500 is leap year
iod. thirteen months, fifty4five Saba
ish- and 1888 days. Our cycle of ninet
re- years Is said to be two hours Ell
minutes and fifteen seconds Ion
IS than the Gregorian cycle on WI
YER the Christian calendar is based,
Services will be held in all Jew
of tabernacles in Chicago Wednest
rds The day is celebrated with spe
vite musical features nthe synagog
rd's and with feasting in the homes.