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Torah and Jewish Idea => Torah and Jewish Idea => Topic started by: Tag-MehirTzedek on April 01, 2014, 12:19:30 AM
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It is Rosh Chodesh Nissan today!
It is the 1st month of the Jewish year... But not the 1st month of the world year (which is counted from Tishrei)...
Happy New Year!
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http://www.aish.com/jl/hol/hm/48958856.html
Tishrei is the first month on any Jewish calendar, but in the Torah we see something rather perplexing; it is referred to consistently as the seventh month, not the first.
This disparity is caused by two different ways of counting one month. One is to begin with Creation, what Jews see as the most central event to ever take place. We therefore unhesitatingly call it the first or primary month.
God however sees it from an entirely different angle. To Him, the most significant moment in time was the Exodus from Egypt, which made us a people and opened up the door for our accepting His word as our guide. Nothing could be as primary to the world's existence than that day. This is why Nissan, the month in which the Exodus took place, is referred to consistently in the Torah as "the first month." According to this way of counting, Tishrei is the seventh month of the year.
This way of thinking doesn't relegate Tishrei to being just another package of time. Being month seven is also a major statement. There is inherent mystery and significance in the number seven. It isn't a coincidence that Shabbos is the seventh day. Any physical object has six sides, which we refer to as "surface." The inside is the seventh aspect, the part that cannot be seen when we look exclusively on the outside. Time is like a seed that has the DNA for its entire future. As it grows, all of its hidden potential is awakened. In the same way, all of the light that was infused into each of the holy days of this month is released slowly over the course of time so that we experience the spiritual potential of these days every year.
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http://www.hebcal.com/holidays/rosh-chodesh-nisan
Rosh Chodesh Nisan / ראש חודש ניסן
Beginning of new Hebrew month of Nisan. Nisan (sometimes transliterated Nissan) is the 1st month of the Hebrew year. corresponds to March or April on the Gregorian calendar.
List of Dates
Rosh Chodesh Nisan begins in the Diaspora on:
Mon, 11 March 2013 at sundown (1st of Nisan, 5773)
Mon, 31 March 2014 at sundown (1st of Nisan, 5774)
Fri, 20 March 2015 at sundown (1st of Nisan, 5775)
Fri, 08 April 2016 at sundown (1st of Nisan, 5776)
Mon, 27 March 2017 at sundown (1st of Nisan, 5777)
Fri, 16 March 2018 at sundown (1st of Nisan, 5778)
Fri, 05 April 2019 at sundown (1st of Nisan, 5779)
Wed, 25 March 2020 at sundown (1st of Nisan, 5780)
Sat, 13 March 2021 at sundown (1st of Nisan, 5781)
Fri, 01 April 2022 at sundown (1st of Nisan, 5782)