Hungry as a Horse
“And I will give grass in your field for your livestock, and you will eat and be sated.” Devarim 11:14 from this week’s Parshah Eikev
“And I will give grass in your field for your livestock, and you will eat and be sated.” Devarim 11:14 from this week’s Parshah Eikev
- The Gemarah in Brachot learns out from this pasuk that because animals are mentioned first we must feed our animals in the morning before we eat. Rabbi Pliskin states that this commandment engenders kindness.
- What about Kavod (respect ,honor)? Man was made in the image of G-D. Perhaps it is not dignified to serve an animal before man.
- The relationship between man and animal has many parallels to the relationship between man and G-D . Chasidus teaches us that man has both an animal soul and a G-D’ly soul. If a man who is hungry in the morning feeds an animal who cannot feed itself and the man fights his own physical desire to eat then through the man’s kindness he not only reveals his humanity but his divinity.
Shabbat Shalom u'mivorach,
Dan
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