Purim Sheini

 I'm working on an idea but I haven't fully fleshed it out so I'll use this space as a sketch book, only instead of a sketch, I'll put in words that I type as they spill out of my brain and such.

Some holidays have a "second" -- that is, a version of themselves or an echo, a month afterwards, or at some other time of the year. There are Yom Kippur Katans sprinkled throughout the calendar. There is a Pesach Sheini one month after Passover. There is even a Purim Katan a month BEFORE the actual Purim in a leap year. I'd like to posit that Pesach serves as a Purim Sheini.

It seems like many of the themes of Purim reappear on Pesach. In fact, the Talmud rules that in a leap year, the celebration of Purim is in the second Adar so that it has proximity to Pesach and the redemptions commemorated in each are close together. Each one has an obligation of telling the story of that holiday's historic redemption and a text has emerged which allows one to fulfill that obligation: the haggadah and the megillah.

On each holiday, there is a tradition of dressing in a non-standard way -- some wear costumes on Purim and many men wear a kitel at the seder. Each one has an obligation to give charity specifically earmarked for the poor to buy food for this holiday (Ma'ot Chitim and Matanot L'Evyonim).

Each one in, a sense, begins at the beginning of its month even though it doesn't actually begin until 2 weeks later. Mi shenichnas Adar, the joy begins as soon as one enters the month of Adar, and the beginning of Nisan marks our new year and we begin certain practices (and make liturgical changes) as of then.

The central and defining feature of Purim is the notion of reversal -- v'nahafoch hu; the salvation and victory were snatched from the jaws of imminent death and defeat. Passover is marked by the similar, miraculous inversion. We went m'avdut, from slavery, to cheirut, freedom, m'yagon l'simcha, from sadness to hapiness. Haman of Purim reappears later as Ha Mann in the desert (and the Amalek confrontation of Purim is closely tied to the initial encounter with the nation of Amalek in the desert shortly after the exodus).

What does this mean? Mostly that Pesach needs to be a vibrant celebration of all the specific miracles like Purim to balance its myriad rules, and Purim needs to have in mind the complexity and gravitas of Pesach to temper its gaity.

While many sources might show connections between the two, I haven't seen anything which makes a direct connection in the context of a "sheini" a second celebration. Any suggestions welcome.