Editing Nisan (section)

==Holidays and observances==
* '''1 Nisan''' [[Lunar New Year#Middle East|Lunar new year]], marking the month of Aviv meaning [[Spring (season)|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. ({{circa|1456}}&nbsp;BCE)
* '''10 Nisan''' – [[Yom HaAliyah]] – Aliyah Day, Israeli national holiday
* '''14 Nisan''' – [[Fast of the Firstborn]] – When the 14th falls on [[Sabbath]], Ashkenazim observe it on 12 Nisan and Sephardim do not observe it at all
* '''14 Nisan''' – [[Passover seder]] meal and [[Haggadah]] on the going out of the 14th and eve of the 15th
* '''15–21 Nisan (22 Nisan outside of Israel)''' – Feast of [[Matzot]] – [[Passover]] week
* '''23 Nisan''' – [[Mimouna]] – a [[Maghrebi]] Jewish celebration of the end of the Passover prohibition on eating ''[[chametz]]'', on 22 Nisan within Israel
* '''27 Nisan''' – [[Yom HaShoah]] (Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day) – on 26 Nisan or 28 Nisan when the 27th falls on Friday or Sunday respectively, interfering with Shabbat