When I tell people that Judaism marks a new year four times during each Gregorian year, they’re usually a little confused. Surely that can’t be right, their eyes seem to say, because how would you know what year you’re in?
But it is true. Time doesn’t have to be a linear progression from point A to B and on into the so-called future; it’s fully possible to be inhabiting several layers of time at once. I’m not in just one…