A New Year
An evening pause: Written by Michael Hunter Ochs and performed to celebrate the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashahah, this song applies now as well. As it says, “As long as there are stars above, there comes a new year.”
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Forgive my ignorance (and laziness):
What Year is it, in the Jewish Calendar?
Today is the 4th of the month of Tevet in the year 5777. See: http://www.hebcal.com/converter/
Thank you!
That is so cool, 5777!
Our current Calendar, makes it sound like the World started 2,017 years ago, and I know that aint true!
slightly tangential–
Arthur Benjamin the Math-magician
Math tricks with the (Gregorian) Calendar
https://youtu.be/e4PTvXtz4GM?t=459