Nisan in a sentence

But both those who followed the Nisan 14 custom, and those who set Easter to the following Sunday had in common the custom of consulting their Jewish neighbors to learn when the month of Nisan would fall, and setting their festival accordingly.

Easter was henceforward to be a Sunday in a lunar month chosen according to Christian criteria—in effect, a Christian Nisan—not in the month of Nisan as defined by Jews.

April Nisan Ilkmen is a doctoral Candidate in Couple and Family Therapy at Adler University.

At a rural intersection outside Jakarta, 85-year-old Husin bin Nisan stands guard, his hands nimbly signaling for vehicles to stop or proceed.

Husin bin Nisan, second left, walks with other worshippers to circle a mock Kaaba during a hajj rehearsal in Tangerang, Indonesia, Monday, May 15, 2023.

The Jews observe Passover for seven days, beginning on the 15th of the Jewish month Nisan (usually in April).

As it is written in the Talmud, “In Nisan we were redeemed, in Nissan we will be redeemed” (Rosh Hashanah 11a).

Pesakh (Passover) commemorates this event (c. 1.300 BC), which begins on the fifteenth day of the Hebrew month of Nisan, a fertility benchmark when barley is ripe.

Edwin Thiele has concluded that the ancient northern Kingdom of Israel counted years using the ecclesiastical new year starting on 1 Aviv (Nisan), while the southern Kingdom of Judah counted years using the civil new year starting on 1 Tishrei.

For a survey of the field, see the book by Kushilevitz and Nisan.

Historically, at the beginning of the 15th of Nisan in Ancient Egypt, the Jewish people were enslaved to Pharaoh.

If so, then Polycarp's martyrdom would have had to occur at least a month after the traditional February 23 dating since according to the Hebrew calendar the earliest time Nisan 14, the date of the Passover, can fall on in any given year is late March.

It is conducted on the evening of the 15th day of Nisan in the Hebrew calendar throughout the world.

Lacan was a painter while Sophia was the Holy Mother of Nisan around the time of the war between Shevat and Solaris five-hundred years earlier.

Nevertheless, the Islamic position equating Nisan with Dhū al-Ḥijja has prevailed.

Nisan, 2003 The Tel al-Zaatar camp fell to the Christians after a six-month siege in which thousands of Palestinians, mostly civilians, were killed.

Nothing of the sacrifice on which the sun rises by the morning of the 15th of Nisan may be eaten, but must be burned.

The other opinion is that the creation was completed on 1 Nisan.

There was sufficient opposition to the selection of that date for the memorial that its observance was moved to 27 Nisan, approximately halfway between the end of Passover and Yom Ha'Atzmaut, and still within the period of the uprising.

The rituals unique to the Passover celebrations commence with the Passover Seder when the 15th of Nisan has begun.