>Now to jog my memory further what is the name of the month added? All I remeber is Nisan, Tishri, Nivan? ... I'm blank

In leap years, we have two months of Adar (Ah-DAHR), called (not surprisingly) Adar I and Adar II. Adar comes right before Nisan (pronounced like the car company), which is the month that contains Passover.

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