Corden was born in Hillingdon, Greater London, the son of Margaret and Malcolm Corden. His father was a musician in the Royal Air Force band and his mother was a social worker. He grew up in Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire and attended Park Middle School and Holmer Green Upper School.
Rosh Hashanah is a two-day celebration, which begins on the first day of Tishrei. Tishrei is the first month of the Jewish civil year, but the seventh month of the ecclesiastical year.
Rosh Hashanah is only one of the many new years listed in the Talmud. There are new years for vegetables, for counting the reign of kings, for trees. Rosh Hashanah is the date that marks, at least according to sages quoted in the Talmud, the birthday of the world when Adam and Eve were created (T.B. Rosh Hashanah 27a).