The Jewish calendar's epoch ( reference date ), 1 Tishrei 1 AM, is equivalent to Monday, 7 October 3761 BCE in the proleptic Julian calendar, the equivalent tabular date ( same daylight period ) and is about one year before the traditional Jewish date of Creation on 25 Elul AM 1, based upon the Seder Olam Rabbah of Rabbi Yossi ben Halafta, a 2nd century CE sage.

The Seder Olam Rabbah also recognized the importance of the Jubilee and Sabbatical cycles as a long-term calendrical system, and attempted at various places to fit the Sabbatical and Jubilee years into its chronological scheme.

* Seder Olam Rabbah ( or simply Seder Olam ).

According to Seder Olam Rabbah, based on Jewish reckoning, he was born in 130 AM.

According to the Seder Olam Rabbah, he died in 1042 AM.

This date corresponds very well with the biblical and Jewish chronology ( Seder Olam, Josephus, Bar Hebraeus ) but has never been widely accepted by secular authorities.

The Seder Olam Zutta lists him as the Exilarch in Babylon to succeed Shealtiel.

The Seder Olam Zutta also supports that position.

Traditional rabbinic sources state that the Second Temple stood for 420 years and based on the 2nd-century work Seder Olam Rabbah, place construction in 350 BCE ( 3408 AM ), 166 years later than secular estimates, and destruction in 70 CE ( 3829 AM ).

The earliest post-exilic Jewish chronicle preserved in the Hebrew language, the Seder Olam Rabbah, compiled by Jose ben Halafta in 160 AD, dates the creation of the world to 3751 BC while the later Seder Olam Zutta to 4339 BC.

The Seder Olam Rabbah ( second century AD ), stated that this verse meant that the counting was not to start until after the Israelites had gained control of Canaan, which the Seder Olam, based upon received tradition, placed at 14 years after their entry into the land.

The Seder Olam Rabbah recognized the importance of the Jubilee and Sabbatical cycles as a long-term calendrical system, and attempted at various places to fit the Sabbatical and Jubilee years into its chronological scheme.

As mentioned above, the Seder Olam put forth the idea that the counting for these cycles was deferred until 14 years after entry into the land.

The reasons for this are given in Seder Olam chapter 11.

In this same chapter 11 of the Seder Olam, Rabbi Jose stated ( for unknown reasons ) that Israel's time in its land must have lasted an integral number of Jubilee periods.

The reason for the fourteen-year delay in Seder ‘ Olam 11 is that Rabbi Yose ( primary author of the Seder ‘ Olam ) had the idée fixe that the total time that Israel spent in its land must come out to an exact number of Jubilee cycles.

It consists of two sections, Seder Eliyahu Rabbah and Seder Eliyahu Zuta.

The statement of Seder ' Olam Zuta ought perhaps to be emended, since Huna was probably not the son of Mar Kahana, but the son of the latter's elder brother Nathan.

The Seder ' Olam Zuta connects with the birth of his son Mar Zutra the legend that is elsewhere told in connection with Bostanai's birth.

* Seder ' Olam Zuta, in A. Neubauer's Mediæval Jewish Chronicles, ii.

* Rabbic Sources and Seder Olam Zuta: " Seder Olam Zuta " & " Rav-SIG "

Probably historical exilarchs also found in the Seder Olam Zutta:

An egg is one of the components of a traditional Seder plate, a traditional centerpiece of the Passover meal.

It is the only holiday that centers on home-service, the Seder.

Homes are thoroughly cleaned to ensure no bread or bread by-products remain, and a symbolic burning of the last vestiges of chametz is conducted on the morning of the Seder.

Matzo is eaten by Jews as an obligation during the Passover Seder meal ; during the rest of the holiday its consumption is optional, though customary, as only unleavened bread may be eaten.

During the Seder the third time the matza is eaten it is preceded with the Sefardic rite, " zekher l ’ korban pesach hane ’ ekhal al hasova ".

The Passover Seder meal is full of symbols of salvation, including the opening of the door for Elijah and the closing line, “ Next year in Jerusalem ,” but the use of matzah is the oldest symbol of salvation in the Seder.

Another view is that, since the Hebrew term for egg matzah is matzah ashirah (, literally, " enriched matzah " or " rich matzah "), it cannot be used to fulfill the requirement of eating matzah at the Passover Seder.

This is because such matzah would be considered " rich ", while the matzo eaten at the Seder is called " poor man's bread " ( Hebrew: ) ( Deut.

The Seder Korban Pesach, a set of scriptural and Rabbinic passages dealing with the Passover sacrifice, is customarily recited during or after the Mincha ( afternoon prayer ) service on the 14th on Nisan.

The story of the Korban Pesach is also retold at the Passover Seder, meaning order, and the symbolic food which represents it on the Seder Plate is usually a roasted lamb shankbone or chicken wing.

Today, in the absence of the Temple, the mitzvah of the Korban Pesach is memorialized in the Seder Korban Pesach, recited in the afternoon of Nisan 14, and in the form of symbolic food placed on the Passover Seder Plate, which is usually a roasted shankbone.

The most famous question which the youngest child asks at the Seder is the Mah Nishtanah-" Why is this night different from all other nights?

According to most traditions, no blessing is recited at this point in the Seder, unlike the blessing recited over the washing of the hands before eating bread at any other time.

His Prayer-Book ( Siddur Rab Amram or Seder Rav Amram ), which took the form of a long responsum to the Jews of Spain, is still extant and was an important influence on most of the current rites in use among the Jews.

In the edition of Lipa and Höschel Seder Nezikin is wanting ; most of the rest of the work was afterward printed at Jerusalem by J. M.

The Haggadah is a very important and popular story in Jewish culture and religion about the departure of the Israelites from ancient Egypt, which is read every year during the Passover Seder.

While many Jewish holidays revolve around the synagogue, the Seder is conducted in the family home, although communal Seders are also organized by synagogues, schools and community centers, some open to the general public.

In many homes, each participant at the Seder table will recite at least critical parts of the Haggadah in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.

The four cups might also reflect the Roman custom of drinking as many cups as there are letters in the name of the chief guest at a meal, which in the case of the Seder is God Himself whose Hebrew name has four letters.

Acting in a way that shows freedom and majesty, many Jews have the custom of filling each other's cups at the Seder table.

At this part in the Seder, songs of praise are sung, including the song Dayenu, which proclaims that had God performed any single one of the many deeds performed for the Jewish people, it would have been enough to obligate us to give thanks.

Charles Stith founded an annual Black-Jewish Seder in Boston which inspired many interfaith Seders with Catholic, Protestant and Jewish participants in Boston and nationally.

She mentioned that Seder was her favorite available choice for co-host when she was approached by Air America for the radio show ; her first choice ( as she said in obvious jest ) was her favorite actor, the legendary Steve McQueen, who of course has been deceased for many years.

However, many of the mishnayot of Seder Zeraim are addressed throughout the Babylonian Talmud.

His " Prayer-book ," which was made familiar by the many extracts quoted from it by the liturgical writers of the Middle Ages, and which served as the model for Saadia's and Maimonides ' own prayer rituals, was published complete for the first time in Warsaw, in the year 1865, by N. N. Coronel, under the title " Seder Rab Amram Gaon.