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In many cultures, fasting seems more \u201cgodly\u201d, more \u201cangelic\u201d. Being able to manage without food, sort of like God, wow! But our tradition tells us that it\u2019s just as much a mitzvah to eat on the day before Yom Kippur as it is to fast on our holiest day itself. Which in a sense means: to celebrate our being fully human is to eat.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our relationship with food is intriguing on many levels. <\/span>The very first time the root \u201ccommand\u201d (tz-v-h) appears in the Torah is in the Garden of Eden. Our whole relationship with God is through food. Like an endless mother, all our \u201cpositive\u201d and \u201cnegative\u201d doings are folded into what we are invited to eat and what we should avoid. <\/span><\/p>\n

We are asked to do something amazing: take an orange. Or tofu. Or bread. Turn it into energy, money, projects, Torah learning. And do so while we remember God. What a simultaneously humbling and powerful experience!! We\u2019re just like God, we can change Creation! So small, we can\u2019t go on for very long without a little something\u2026 we are made \u201cin the image of\u201d; a \u201cspark of the Divine\u201d but just in case, we are reminded that we are the \u201ccreated\u201d, and not the \u201cCreator\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

The midrash tells us about Abraham and Sarah who \u201cmade souls\u201d (Genesis 12:5) and taught people about the One God. We know how they did it: they had people over for a meal and the rest is history.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this chapter we read the famous 3 words: \u05d5\u05d0\u05db\u05dc\u05ea, \u05d5\u05e9\u05d1\u05e2\u05ea \u05d5\u05d1\u05e8\u05db\u05ea<\/strong> \u2013 \u201cand you shall eat, and be satisfied and bless\u2019 (Deuteronomy 8:10). Interestingly, we are <\/span>not<\/span><\/i> the only ones who eat: When the sacrifices are accepted, it is described as the <\/span>mizbe\u2019ach<\/span><\/em> (altar) who eats them; the Land of Israel is described as \u201ceating its inhabitants\u201d (Numbers 13:32). Though often viewed negatively, what this tells us is that the Land, which is an active, willing, living being consumes and thereby changes those who live on it as they become an integral part of her!<\/span><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s chapter also teaches that eating can have dangers. Excessive eating can lead to forgetting the Source of it. Do we eat to live or live to eat?? The Torah views eating as a tool, not an end, for us to come close to God.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, let\u2019s have a little something. All this writing makes me hungry\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

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