Nisan

Holidays and observances

• 10 Nisan – Yahrzeit of Miriam the prophetess, sister of Moses and Aaron
• 10 Nisan – Yom HaAliyah – Aliyah Day, Israeli national holiday
• 14 Nisan – Fast of the Firstborn – on 12 Nisan when the 14th falls on Sabbath
• 14 Nisan – Birkat Hachama is recited once every 28 years
• 15–21 Nisan – Passover
• 23 Nisan – Mimouna – Maghrebi Jewish celebration of the end of the Passover prohibition on eating chametz, on 22 Nisan within Israel
• 26 Nisan – Traditional yahrzeit of Joshua
• 27 Nisan – Yom HaShoah – on 26 Nisan or 28 Nisan when the 27th falls on Friday or Sunday respectively, interfering with Shabbat

  In Jewish history and tradition

• 1 Nisan.
• 1 Nisan – Death of Abraham according to the Talmud
• 1 Nisan – Death of Isaac according to the Talmud
• 1 Nisan – Death of Jacob according to the Talmud
• 1 Nisan – First mitzvah is given to the Jewish people
• 1 Nisan – Tabernacle inaugurated; death of Nadab and Abihu; Nathan of Breslov adds that, though they were great tzadikim, Nadab and Abihu did not exercise restraint "when first approaching the Holy of Holies", which is the highest level of sanctity in this world
• 1 Nisan – Birth of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov
• 1 Nisan – Death of Rabbi Elimelech Szapira of Grodzhisk
• 2 Nisan – Death of Sholom Dovber Schneersohn, the fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe. His last words are recorded as, "I'm going to heaven; I leave you the writings."
• 3 Nisan – The Alhambra Decree orders the expulsion of Spanish Jews from Castile and Aragon.
• 7 Nisan – Joshua sends two spies to Jericho.
• 8 Nisan – Birth of Yaakov Yechezkiya Greenwald II, the present Pupa Rebbe
• 10 Nisan – The first Shabbat HaGadol was celebrated by the Israelites in Egypt five days before The Exodus.
• 10 Nisan – Death of Miriam, 39 years after the Exodus.
• 10 Nisan – The Israelites cross the Jordan River into Canaan
• 11 Nisan – Death of Nachmanides
• 11 Nisan – Birth of the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson
• 13 Nisan – Haman's decree to annihilate the Jews is passed.
• 13 Nisan – Death of Joseph Caro, author of the Shulchan Aruch.
• 13 Nisan – Death of Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, the third Lubavitcher Rebbe.
• 14 Nisan – Birth of Maimonides
• 14 Nisan – Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins. The uprising would last until 3 Iyar, and is now commemorated in Israel on 27 Nisan.
• 15 Nisan – Birth of Isaac
• 15 Nisan – The Exodus from Egypt
• 15 Nisan – Esther appears before Ahasuerus unsummoned and invites him and Haman to a feast to be held the same day. During the feast she requests that the king and Haman attend a second feast the next day.
• 16 Nisan – The Israelites stop eating manna six days after entering the Holy Land.
• 16 Nisan – Esther's second feast, during which she accuses Haman regarding his plot to annihilate her nation. Ahasuerus orders his servants to hang Haman.
• 17 Nisan – Noah's Ark came to rest on mountains of Ararat
• 17 Nisan – Haman hanged after Esther's second drinking party.
• 21 Nisan – The sea splits, allowing Israel to escape the Egyptian army.
• 26 Nisan – Death of Joshua
• 28 Nisan – Battle of Jericho by Joshua.
• 29 Nisan – Death of Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, a Kabbalist and a disciple of Isaac Luria.
• 29 Nisan – In Bamberg, Germany during a commercial crisis in 1699, the populace rose up against the Jews, and one Jew saved himself by throwing prunes from a gable-window down upon the mob. That event, the 29th of Nisan, called the Zwetschgen Taanit "Plum-Fast", was commemorated by a fast and a Purim festivity until the extermination of the Jewish community there.

  Other uses

• In the Akkadian of Akkad, Assyria and Babylonia nisānu, which derives from Sumerian nisag "First fruits".
• "Nisan" is also the name for the month of April in Arabic, a later Semitic language, in Kurdish languages and modern Turkish.
• In the story of Xenogears, "Nisan" is the name of a country, named after the Hebrew month.
• Quartodecimanism