This year is a leap year, with two months of Adar. The fourteenth of the first Adar is “Purim Katan” (“Little Purim”) and the fourteenth of the second Adar is the “big” Purim, when we read the Megillah etc. At a Bris (circumcision) we say, “this little one will become big”. In the months of Adar we are supposed to add in joy more and more from day to day. The little Purim is a preparation for the big Purim, and with all the joy that we have been adding every day, the “big” Purim will be very, very big! And then we go from the month of Purim to the month of Passover, one redemption after another; may we immediately have the true and complete Redemption through Moshiach in this season of Redemption!
(See talk of the Lubavitcher Rebbe King Moshiach Shlita, Ki Sisa 5752 (1992))
