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Nisan 5759
Mar - Apr 1999

March 1999 / Nisan 5759

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
        18/1 19/2 20/3
21/4 22/5 23/6 24/7 25/8 26/9 27/10
28/11 29/12 30/13 31/14      

April 1999 / Nisan 5759

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
        1/15 2/16 3/17
4/18 5/19 6/20 7/21 8/22 9/23 10/24
11/25 12/26 13/27 14/28 15/29 16/30  

New Moon - 1 Nisan - March  18, 1999
1 Nisan 2048 (March 18 1712 BCE) - This day marks the traditional date the birth of Isaac son of Abraham.  He lived from 2048-2228 (180 years).
2 Nisan 2449 (March 19 1312 BCE) - Traditional date for the setting up of the Tabernacle set up by the Israelites in the wilderness. The Tabernacle built by Bezallel and Oholiab was made of acacia wood and covered in gold. There were fine woven materials used in various coverings and curtains. Most of the vessels (candelabra, table, Alters etc.) were made of either pure gold or wood with gold coverings. After crossing the Jordan it was moved to Shilo.
Mar 21 - Vernal Equinox (at 01:46 UT)
March 26, 1979 -  Peace accord between Israel and Egypt is signed by Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat.
Pesach - 15 Nisan - April 1, 1999
(Passover)
"Israel's redemption in future days will happen on the fifteenth of Nisan, the night of Israel's redemption from Egypt, for thus did Moses say, 'In this night God protected Israel against the Angels of Destruction, and in this night He will also redeem the generations of the future.'"  (Legends of the Jews, Louis Ginzberg, Book 2 - Time Intervals)
Apr 10 - Moon Occults Neptune
Apr 11 - Moon Occults Uranus
April 11, 1909: Tel Aviv, the first modern Jewish city, is founded on the sand dunes north of Jaffa with the building of 60 houses. (Tzemach News Service; http://www.tzemach.org/fyi)
Yom Hashoah - 27 Nisan - April 13, 1999
(Holocaust Remembrance Day)
Apr 14 - Moon Occults Mercury
April 14, 1859: In Galatz, Rumania, Jews were accused of taking blood from a Christian child (for the baking of matzos) though not of killing him. Fifteen "culprits" are arrested. The next day a mob broke into the synagogue, killing some of the worshipers, destroying some fifty scrolls and demolishing the synagogue. The 15 were soon released with no convictions, yet the government refused to allow the synagogue to be rebuilt for nearly 20 years. (Tzemach News Service; http://www.tzemach.org/fyi)
April 15, 1916: France and Britain divide up the Middle East in the Sykes- Picot Agreement. France was assured of Syria and the Mousl, with English control of Northern Arabia and Central Mesopotamia. Pre-state Israel was divided with France controlling the Galilee, Britain the Haifa area and the rest of the country under international control. (Tzemach News Service; http://www.tzemach.org/fyi)

Also called Abib, meaning "an ear of corn," the month of newly-ripened grain (Ex. 13:4; 23:15); the first of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, and the seventh of the civil year. It began about the time of the vernal equinox, on 21st March. It was called Nisan, after the Captivity (Neh. 2:1). On the fifteenth day of the month, harvest was begun by gathering a sheaf of barley, which was offered unto the Lord on the sixteenth (Lev. 23:4-11). (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

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