Bo – The Sun vs. the Moon

with Rabbi Benny Rapoport

In our Torah portion this week, G-d appears to Moses and Aaron and gives the Jewish people, this new nation that is set to embark on their journey to the Promised Land, their first Mitzvah.

What would you think that mitzvah would be? What kind of central guiding principle would serve as the bedrock of a moral society and was therefore chosen to be the first law given to the new nation?

Tune into this week's Parshah Cast and discover something quite unexpected!

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	Rabbi Benny Rapoport is director of Chabad's Jewish Discovery Center in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania. He has lived in the Scranton/Abington area with his wife and family since the fall of 2000.

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