Yaakov, Béla Orbán
“And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,This
month (Nissan) [shall be] unto you the beginning of months: it [shall be] the
first month of the year to you..” (Exodus 12: 1-2)
The beginning of a new period: the release from Egypt.
The beginning of a new year: at spring.
The beginning of a new life: when the conversion happens.
This Law is not only addressed to the people of Israel and to all men
but it is also an individual warning!
The Eternal God gave in order to Israel to remember their release from
Egypt in advance, before the Exodus happened.
The observance of this law is a question of faith.
I am celebrating as a human by remembering the promise of God in which I
will only take part someday in the future.
God always reveals his word in advance. We have to worship and bless him
for his will, word and promises at the right moment when they are being
revealed to us.
How different is this compared to most of the Christian worships we can
only hear when things already happened!
How different it is to hear God and to obey him or even to praise him
and to wait the moment to come. Then we can go on praising him when his promise
are fulfilled by remembering all that has happened in our life. This is the
faith of a Jewish man...
Let’s put apart all sentences like: “we’ll see”, which are all
testifying of a huge lack of faith coming from the spirit of Hellenism. People having
that kind of thoughts are living in a passive expectation without really
believing that the promises will become reality!
In Hebrew, the letters of the word Nissan match the letters of
the word Nissi which meaning is miracle.
This is not a coincidence. Indeed, the two concepts are inseparables from
each other. In Nissan, many miracles happened that aimed to strengthen
and testify the fact that God hasn’t left his people. (see: the 10 plagues that
all have avoided the Jews, then came the Exodus, the crossing of the Red See
and many other miracles in the wilderness...) 
