Nisan
Nisan (; ) or
Nissan (; from ) is the month of the barley ripening and the first month of spring in the
Babylonian and
Hebrew calendars. The name of the month is an Akkadian borrowing, although it is ultimately derived from
Sumerian ''nisag'' 'first fruits'. In the Hebrew calendar, it is the first month of the ecclesiastical year, called the "first of the months of the year" (
Exodus 12:1-2), "first month" (Ex 12:14), and the month of ''
Aviv'' (Ex 13:4; ''ḥōḏeš hāʾāḇîḇ''). It is called ''Nissān'' in the
Book of Esther. It is a month of 30 days. In the year 2025, 1 Nisan will occur on 30 March. Counting from 1
Tishrei, the civil new year, it would be the seventh month (eighth, in leap year), but in contemporary Jewish culture, both months are viewed as the first and seventh simultaneously, and are referred to as one or the other depending on the specific religious aspects being discussed.
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