Food & Eating
Latkes on Chanukah… Cheesecake on Shavuot… Matzah on Pesach... Apples and honey on Rosh Hashanah… What are you really hungry for?
The pleasure lasts about five seconds, from when morsel hits palate until it journeys down into your life force. And yet this experience captivates our senses and our emotions. Why? Eating and drinking seems to be highly coarse and insensitive – consuming another living organism just for your fleeting pleasure? How is this delicious, holy, or kosher? For what exactly are we thirsting and in what does our hunger truly lie? Gastronomy may be more than a sum of ingredients.
The Seder Plate: A Microcosm of Your Psyche
The Seder plate serves as a reflection of both your purpose in life and your greatest potential, and contains in its structure multiple layers of symbolism.
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It’s Not Worth Trying to Eat Mindfully
The self-help industry tells us to “eat mindfully” — but what does that even mean? In its simplest form, means eating only when you truly want to eat and eating only what you want to eat.
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Why We Fast On Yom Kippur: Reverse Biology
Spiritual meaning of fasting: Yom Kippur is a taste of this future world of reverse biology. We will be sustained by hunger, and will experience other unnatural phenomena.
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Meat & Atzilut
After taking a closer look at the Jew’s complaint we can understand the purpose of the world- to integrate the Divine and physical worlds.
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Animal Rights and Eating Meat
A source-based mystical perspective on meat eating and animal rights.
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Spiked Chassidism
The fifth Rebbe of Lubavitch teaches us the importance of learning, self-development and growth in spiritual matters.
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The Soul Throws a Party
Rabbi Yisroel Baal Shemtov explains to us, through parable, the importance of being joyful on the most spiritual day of the week, Shabbat.
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Mystical Meals
One can fulfill G-d’s will while eating by allowing his body, his soul, and the food to be dominated by a transcendent perspective.
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Bread from Heaven
Spiritual meaning of food: Food is the glue of life, the medium that holds body and soul together. So food, too, has both an “elementary” and a “particular” role in the sustenance of life.
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Food & Our Relationship with G-d
The Talmud points to the relationship between the soul and the body as a model for the nature of G-d’s relationship with the world. The soul cannot be perceived by the senses, yet its presence and effect is keenly felt in every part of the body; so too, G-d, though He transcends our reality and is utterly beyond its perception, vitalizes the entirety of creation and is fully present in its every nook and cranny. Food is the glue that keeps soul and body together, sustaining the embodiment of the spirit within its material shell.
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Spiritual Thirst
Spiritual thirst is a thirst without water. It is a thirst for truth, meaning, and purpose.
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The Power of Five Seconds: Jewish Obsession with Food
Jews have a unique relationship with food. It goes beyond bagels and kishke. Get a unique spiritual perspective on the Jewish relationship with food from Rabbi Simon Jacobson.
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