Today's daf offers us insight into the tools our ancestors used for memorizing dates, empires, and other details. The rabbis speak about scribes remembering dates. They teach us about how many years each empire ruled over Israel. Knowing when the Temple was destroyed, scribes can calculate the years that different Empires were in power.
Mnemonics are recommended as a memory tool. Key markers of time include the giving of the Torah at Sinai, the destruction of the Temple, famines, the Sabbatical cycle and jubilee years. Knowing these critical events and some of the years between them can help a scribe - or others - calculate the date of almost any event.
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