כדאמר רב פפא שנת עשרים שנת עשרים לגזרה שוה הכא נמי שנת ארבעים שנת ארבעים לגזרה שוה מה כאן ליציאת מצרים אף כאן ליציאת מצרים
Now since the text when referring to Ab places it in the fortieth year and again when referring to [the following] Shebat places it also in the fortieth year, we may conclude that Tishri is not the beginning of the year.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As otherwise Ab and Shebat would fall in different years.');"><sup>14</sup></span> [This, however] is not conclusive. I grant you that the former text states explicitly that [the year spoken of was] 'from the going forth from Egypt'; but how do we know that [the year mentioned in] the latter text is reckoned from the exodus?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As it simply says 'In the fortieth year', without specifying from when.');"><sup>15</sup></span>
Rashi on Rosh Hashanah
The [variant text] "What does this teach us?" is in error rather the text is "this teaches us that Nissan is the New Year for Kings..."
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Rashi on Rosh Hashanah
Where they appointed him - the princes met and concluded that he should be appointed
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Rashi on Rosh Hashanah
For both of them - Someone who writes a document in the Adar after the first's ascension can write either in year x of the dead king or can write in the first year of the new king
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Rashi on Rosh Hashanah
He died in Nissan and a successor took over in Nissan [of that same year] - and it is the law that if he ascended in any month that until the coming Nissan can use both the count of the dead king and that of the new one.
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Rashi on Rosh Hashanah
and the second year to the second king - He who writes "from x's ascension" does not count the second year to the dead king because this year was not his and the first isn't counted to the second [king] because he hadn't ascended then rather the second is counted as the second [king's] first year.
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Rashi on Rosh Hashanah
You might think you couldn't count 2 kings for one year - [your initial thought might be] that since the king didn't reign for long the entire year should be accredited to the first dead king.
