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1 Nisan Lunar new year, marking the month of Aviv meaning spring, as the first month of the year, which month was later called Nisan. The first national mitzvah that was given to the Jewish people to fix the calendar to the new moon of Aviv, according to the Book of Exodus 12:1–2, 12:18.
Tishrei (/ ˈ t ɪ ʃ r eɪ /) or Tishri (/ ˈ t ɪ ʃ r iː /; Hebrew: תִּשְׁרֵי tīšrē or תִּשְׁרִי tīšrī; from Akkadian tašrītu "beginning", from šurrû "to begin") is the first month of the civil year (which starts on 1 Tishrei) and the seventh month of the ecclesiastical year (which starts on 1 Nisan) in the Hebrew calendar.
1 Nisan is the ecclesiastical new year, i.e. the date from which months and festivals are counted. [23] Thus Passover (which begins on 15 Nisan) is described in the Torah as falling "in the first month", [24] while Rosh Hashana (which begins on 1 Tishrei) is described as falling "in the seventh month". [25]
It depends on the determination of Nisan 1, which is the day after the new moon closest to the March equinox (within fifteen days before or after). Tishri 1 is the first day of the seventh month. Although the month number is always counted from Nisan, in the Tishri-years, the year begins and ends with Tishri 1. [2]
During the sixth century BCE Babylonian captivity of the Jews, these month names were adopted into the Hebrew calendar. The first month of the civil calendar during the Ur III and Old Babylonian periods was Šekinku (Akk. Addaru), or the month of barley harvesting, and it aligned with the vernal equinox. However, during the intervening Nippur ...
TOKYO (AP) — Nissan’s April-December profit crashed to 5.1 billion yen ($33 million), a tiny fraction of the 325 billion yen the Japanese automaker earned the previous year. Nine-month sales ...
Rosh Hashanah commemorates the creation of Man. [16] In Jewish practice, the months are numbered starting with the spring month of Nisan, making Tishrei the seventh month; Rosh Hashanah, the first day of the new calendar year, is also actually the first day of the seventh month. [17]
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