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Chabad Research Unit — rse Summary Ekev 5743 GRACE AFTER MEALS — Eikev 5783

Выпуск: Chabad Research Unit — rse Summary Ekev 5743 GRACE AFTER MEALS — Eikev 5783. Темы: не определены автоматически. CHABAD ‫ב"ה‬ RESEARCH UNIT he Rebbe's Discourses T Summaries of points from the Rebbe’s Chassidic Discourses ‫בלי אחריות כלל וכלל‬ ‫פרשת עקב תשמ''ג ד''ה ואכלת ושבעת בלתי מוגה‬ Published for Shabbat Sedra Ekev 18 Av 5783, 5 August 20231 GRACE AFTER MEALS A KEY FEATURE OF JEWISH LIFE IS THE RECITING OF GRACE AFTER MEALS. The Sages explain that this refers to the three main blessings of Grace after Meals: the first thanks G-d for food, in general (‘eat and be satisfied and bless’); the second thanks Him for the Land of Israel (‘for the..Land’), and the third is a prayer about Jerusalem (‘for the good Land’)3. The fourth blessing, thanking G-d who is good and does good, was instituted by the Rabbis in the year 148 CE when finally, on 15 Av, the Jews were able to bury the thousands of followers of Bar Kochba who had been killed by the Romans at Betar, 15 years earlier. Chabad Research Unit – www.chabadresearch.net – cru@lubavitchuk.com An intriguing passage in the Talmud4 says that the angels asked G-d: Master of the Universe, doesn’t it say in Your Torah (in Sedra Ekev)5 that You do not show favour to anyone? The ultimate blessing is indeed Peace, and that will be achieved with the coming of Moshiach, when the Jewish people will come to the Land which is ‫טובה ורחבה‬, the Good and Broad Land, as it says in Grace after Meals. He simply dons them in order to fulfil the Mitzva.] Eating, on the other hand, is a way in which the Divine really enters the tangible physical realm: the person eats and is sustained by the food. The Jewish people achieve this through Mitzvot such as Tzitzit and Tefilin, which involve physical things, and of course saying Grace after Meals relating to the physical act of eating. This explains both why the Jews are commended for wishing to say Grace after Meals on a relatively small quantity, and also why this quantity does have to have a certain tangible size. This explains why the Jewish people are praised for trying to make the blessing even when they are not yet ‘satisfied’ by the food, and only an olive size of 4 Brrachot 20b. Further, why shouldn’t people say Grace after Meals after eating only the smallest amount of bread, instead of insisting that they have to have an olive size?

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4 августа 2023 г.

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