- This month shall be the first month for you, it is the first of the months of the year for you. (Exodus 12:1)
- The world was created in Nisan. (Talmud Rosh Hashanah 11)
- Nisan is the month of liberation: in this month our forefathers were liberated, and in this month we are destined to be liberated.
- In this month our forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were born.
- On the first of Nisan, the Tabernacle was erected (Exodus 40:2), and in Nisan the heads of the Tribes brought their offerings for the dedication of the altar.
- This month has three names:
- the First Month;
- the Month of Ripened Barley (i.e. the barley harvest);
- Nisan (a Babylonian name).
- The first of Nisan is the New Year for five things: kings, pilgrim festivals, months, leap years and the half-shekel levy.
- The first tricklings of the liberation from Babylon arrived in Nisan, under Ezra and Nehemiah: For the first of Nisan was the beginning of the immigration from Babylonia. (Ezra 7:9)
- Nehemiah also received permission from the King to go to Jerusalem and rebuild the city and its walls on the first of Nisan (Nehemiah 2:1).
- It is the custom in Israel to request kimcha daPascha (donations for Pesach wheatflour) for the poor on the first of Nisan.
- The haftarah of ‘Shabbat Hagadol’, the first Israel had in Egypt, was on the 10th of Nisan.
- On the 10th of Nisan, on the thirty-ninth year after the Exodus, Miriam died, and there was no water for the people (Numbers 20).
- On the 10th of Nisan, Israel first set foot in the Promised Land – Eretz Yisrael (Joshua 4).
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