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Chapter 1, Mishna 1 He who controls the calendar, controls the people… Sihon and Cyrus are two foreign kings who interacted with the Jewish people in dramatic fashion, with different outcomes in different centuries. The former was wicked and the latter righteous. We measure the tally of a righteous gentile king’s years on the throne from Nissan. If not righteous, from Tishrei.