Chart for Avodah Zarah Daf 8-9

A TIMELINE OF JEWISH HISTORY

THE YEAR THE EVENT YEARS PASSED
FROM PREVIOUS
EVENT
NOTES
1 0 Creation (1)
2 1056 Birth of Noach 1056 (2)
3 1948 Birth of Avraham 892 (3)
4 2000 Avraham fulfills
"ha'Nefesh Asher Asu"
52 (4)
5 2048 Birth of Yitzchak 48(5) 100 years from birth of Avraham
6 2448 Yetzi'as Mitzrayim,
Giving of the Torah
400 (6)
7 2928 Building of the
First Beis ha'Mikdash
480 (7)
8 3338 Destruction of the
First Beis ha'Mikdash
410 (8)
9 3408 Building of the
Second Beis ha'Mikdash
70 (9)
10 3414 Ezra returns to, and
re-sanctifies, the land
6 (10)
11 3442 Kingdom of Yavan takes control over Yisrael and Eilam 28 (11) 34 years after rebuilding of Beis ha'Mikdash
12 3448 Kingdom of Yavan dominates
entire world
6 (12)
13 3622 Kingdom of Rome takes control,
together with the Chashmona'im
174 (13) 180 years after
Yavan dominates Yisrael
14 3648 Kingdom of Rome dominates over the Chashmona'im 26 (14)
15 3828 Destruction of the
Second Beis ha'Mikdash
180 (15) 380 (400-20) years
after Yavan's rule
over entire world
16 4000 End of the "2000 years
of Torah"
172 (16) 552 (600-48) years
after Yavan's rule
over entire world
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FOOTNOTES:

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(1) This is according to the count of our Gemara. However, according to the count that we follow, the Rosh Hashanah of Creation is counted not as year 0, but as year 1, because we add a "Shenas Tohu," a "year of nothingness" to the calculation of the years. See Insights.

(2) This is consistent with the list of the years of the generations enumerated in Parshas Bereishis (Rashi 9a, DH Hachi Garsinan).

(3) This is consistent with the list of the years of the generations enumerated in Parshas Noach (Rashi ibid.).

(4) This is the tradition that the Chachamim received (Gemara here). (5) As recorded in the verse (Bereishis 21:5).

(6) As recorded in the verse (Bereishis 15:13).

(7) As recorded in the verse (Melachim I 6:1).

(8) As recorded in Seder Olam.

(9) As recorded in the verse (Yirmeyahu 29:10).

(10) Gemara in Kerisus (12b), as cited by Rashi here (9b, DH v'Siman). (According to Tosfos, this is true only according to the Rabanan who argue with Rebbi Yehudah. According to Rebbi Yehudah, though, the land was sanctified when the Beis ha'Mikdash was rebuilt, and we count the Shemitah years from the beginning of the building of the second Beis ha'Mikdash.)

(11) As related in the Beraisa (9a).

(12) These six years are not included in the count of years used for the writing of Shetaros, as Rashi explains (9a, DH Neshayalei, based on the Gemara, beginning of 10a).

(13) The Romans took control 180 years after Yavan took control over Yisrael, as the Beraisa (9a) relates.

(14) This is in accordance with the Gemara's proof from the discrepancy in the two Beraisos (one states that Rome ruled for 180 years and the other states that Rome ruled for 206 years). The kingdom of Hurdus ruled for 103 years in Eretz Yisrael under the dominion of Rome, and it ended with the Churban.)

(15) The Churban occurred 420 years after the Beis ha'Mikdash was rebuilt, as the Seder Olam mentions. According to Tosfos (9b, DH Hai), the second Beis ha'Mikdash was destroyed in the year 3829, or 421 years after it was built. See Insights.

(16) As related in the Beraisa (9a).

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