לא סלקא דעתך דכתיב (במדבר לג, לח) ויעל אהרן הכהן אל הר ההר על פי ה' וימת שם בשנת הארבעים לצאת בני ישראל מארץ מצרים בחדש החמישי באחד לחדש וכתיב (דברים א, ג) ויהי בארבעים שנה בעשתי עשר חדש באחד לחדש דבר משה וגו' מדקאי באב וקרי לה שנת ארבעים וקאי בשבט וקרי לה שנת ארבעים מכלל דר"ה לאו תשרי הוא
Perhaps we reckon them from Tishri?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which is the beginning of years reckoned from the creation.');"><sup>9</sup></span> - Do not imagine such a thing. For it is written, And Aaron the priest went up into Mount Hor at the commandment of the Lord, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ab.');"><sup>10</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.
