The Man Who Couldn’t Stop Eating

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Presented by Rabbi Shmuel Butman, Executive Director of the Central Lubavitch Youth Organization (Tzach Hamerkazis) and a veteran columnist and radio broadcaster.

On this week’s program:

Parshas Vayikra-Hachodesh:

The first ten crowns that Rosh Chodesh Nissan got was the Mitzvah of “Hachodesh Hazeh Lochem” that we start counting the Jewish months from Nissan. One of the other crowns was the dedication of the Mishkan on the same day next year. The difference between the two times is the difference between darkness and light, oppression and freedom. Nevertheless, what gave us the strength to dedicate the Mishkan “next year” was the fact that while we were still in Egypt we fulfilled the commandment of Hashem of “Hachodeah Hazeh Lochem.

Also: Where is the similarity between the sun and the moon and the body and the soul? And what is the lesson from that?

Weekly story: What did the Rebbe tell a slim and healthy man who suddenly couldn’t stop eating.