Editing Hebrew calendar (section)

====Anno Mundi====
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[[File:Creation of Light Detail 2.png|right|thumb|The Jewish calendar's reference point is traditionally held to be about one year ''before'' the [[Genesis creation myth|Creation]] of the world.]]

The Jewish year number is generally given by ''{{lang|la|Anno Mundi}}'' (from [[Latin]] "in the year of the world", often abbreviated ''AM'' or ''A.M.''). In this [[calendar era]], the year number equals the number of years that have passed since the [[Genesis creation narrative|creation of the world]], according to an interpretation of [[Biblical]] accounts of the creation and subsequent history. From the eleventh century, ''anno mundi'' dating became the dominant method of counting years throughout most of the world's Jewish communities, replacing earlier systems such as the [[Seleucid era]].<ref name=Jones/><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0umDqPOf2L8C&pg=PA87 |title=The Easter Computus and the Origins of the Christian Era |author=Alden A. Mosshammer|year= 2008 |isbn=9780191562365|pages=87–89 |publisher=OUP Oxford }}</ref>
As with {{lang|la|[[Anno Domini]]}} (A.D. or AD), the words or abbreviation for {{lang|la|Anno Mundi}} (A.M. or AM) for the era should properly ''precede'' the date rather than follow it. 

The reference junction of the Sun and the Moon (Molad 1) is considered to be at 5 hours and 204 halakim, or 11:11:20&nbsp;p.m., on the evening of Sunday, 6 October 3761 BCE.<ref>Edgar Frank, ''Talmudic and Rabbinical Chronology: The System of Counting Years in Jewish Literature,'' (New York: Philip Feldheim, Publisher, 1956)</ref> According to rabbinic reckoning, this moment was ''not'' [[Creation according to Genesis|Creation]], but about one year "before" Creation, with the new moon of its first month (Tishrei) called ''molad tohu'' (the mean new moon of chaos or nothing). It is about one year ''before'' the traditional Jewish [[Dating Creation|date of Creation]] on 25 Elul AM 1,{{efn|The significance of 25 Elul derives from Adam and Eve being created on the sixth day of creation, 1 Tishrei AM 2. In this view, AM 2 is the actual first year of the world, while AM 1 is a "placeholder" year, so that calendar dates can be assigned to the days of creation.}} based upon the ''Seder Olam Rabbah''.{{efn|A minority opinion places Creation on 25 Adar AM 1, six months earlier, or six months after the modern epoch.}} Thus, adding 3760 before [[Rosh Hashanah]] or 3761 after to a [[Julian calendar]] year number starting from 1 CE will yield the Hebrew year. For earlier years there may be a discrepancy; ''see [[Missing years (Jewish calendar)]]''.

{{anchor|writing}}In Hebrew there are two common ways of writing the year number: with the thousands, called {{lang|he|לפרט גדול}} ("major era"), and without the thousands, called {{lang|he|לפרט קטן}} ("minor era"). Thus, the current year is written as <span style="direction:rtl;">'''{{lang|he|{{#time:xhxjY}}}}'''</span> &lrm;({{#time:xjY}}) using the "major era" and <span style="direction:rtl;">'''{{lang|he|{{#invoke:string|sub|{{#time:xhxjY}}|3|-1}}}}'''</span> &lrm;({{#expr:{{#time:xjY}}mod1000}}) using the "minor era".