The same takes place during the days of Nissan, as we approach the exalted days of Pesach.
We’re talking about Rosh Chodesh Nissan, which is the beginning of the year. Chodesh Nissan is the start of Creation: the entire year is built from these days. The Chozeh of Lublin, and other tzaddikim, taught us that each day of the first twelve days of Nissan corresponds to another month of the forthcoming year. Everything is established during those days. The entire year is an outgrowth of these days in Nissan.
But, l’maiseh, when it comes down to it, people are hectic, preoccupied, and frenzied precisely during those days. The Ribbono shel Olam specifically designed the calendar in such a way that we’re preoccupied with many technical things during these days; this is how it works. We can always draw solace from the fact that this is how the Ribbono shel Olam wants it. But the question remains: Why, indeed, is it this way?
So many people, when Erev Pesach comes, don’t even know if they have a brain... they run to bake matzos and there is an entire stack of things they would have wanted to accomplish but didn’t get to... they nearly forget their own names.
