Nisan

Some expositors claim that the beginning of the year in Ezekiel's vision was in the month of Nisan commemorating the Passover.

In each case the Jewish year is reckoned as beginning with Nisan, the month of the spring equinox.

M. On the eve of the fourteenth Nisan, search must be made for leaven by the light of a lamp .

The feast was opened on the evening of Nisan 14, Nisan being a spring month, and the first month of the Jewish year.