Quoting%20commentary for Rosh Hashanah 20:9
(מכלל דתרוייהו סבירא להו בניסן נברא העולם)
Seeing, however, that it is written, 'In the one and six hundredth year', the word 'year' refers to 'six hundred', and as for the word 'one', this means 'the beginning of one'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., it merely gives the date, but gives no indication that a day can be counted as a year.');"><sup>7</sup></span> And what is R'Eleazar's reason? - Because it is written, 'In the first month on the first day of the month.
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