I’m hearing it a couple of days late, but the report is that there is no Aviv (ripe barley) yet in Israel, so a second month of Adar, called Adar 2, is added. So this is what you might call a Jewish ‘leap year’, with 13 months.
So that means that it’s around 45 days to Passover (a few less now, I think, maybe 43?)
The command is to remove ‘leaven’ or ‘chametz’ from the home, but most people will do a thorough ‘spring clean’, working on the basis that there may be ‘chametz’ hiding somewhere!
We have Purim inbetween of course, but I think that now is the time to start planning, if not actually cleaning in earnest yet 🙂
City Borg on the Prairie 