| Judaism's attention to food is quite telling. By restricting what we can and cannot eat, and giving us instructions as to how food is to be eaten, G-D is telling us that food is a tool of holiness. It is one thing to eat only to satisfy hunger. It is another to recognnize the sources of food, acknowledge those who lack even basic food and bring G-D into our eating process by blessing the food we eat. By observiing the Jewish dietary laws of kashrut and by blessing food before we eat, we turn an ordinary chocolate brownie into a holy act. |
