A Healthy Approach to Eating | Pele Yoetz | Hachzek Day 44
All right, Khavra, I hope you're doing well today is Shiva Al Subhurtamos, the seventeenth of Tamuz, marking the beginning of the three weeks. We Davin and we pray and we learn in the Zuchos that Mirta Hashem this year should be a time of joy and happiness. Um and it's just amazing to think about the Ashkochha Pratis that's always involved in our lives. But we'll see today's topic even mentions fast and it talks about the inion of eating, which is just fascinating. Um but it again it's not shocking, it makes sense because Hashem runs the world, and of course, if this is what we happen to be up to in the learning, then then of course it has to do with what's going on. Okay. Somebody who's weak should say, I'm strong. It's up in the cafe. Meaning a person has to have a mental attitude of strength, right? In the very beginning of Shokanar, His Gaber Ka'ari. That's the fortitude, the attitude, and the approach to attack our day as a yid is giburani. Even when a person's in a moment of weakness, um, a person who truly loves a Qurishbar, Show, Yazv, Yazvav or this is going to be recognized because he's not going to abandon the service. Meaning he's loyal, he stays committed, even in moments of weakness. We also see that it's incumbent upon a person to um connect himself and to use um methods of Rafua that are necessary and to eat when are necessary. Shamek Obusud Kazmikil, Mizanosov, right? Somebody who was bloodletting, he has to eat afterwards. But somebody who is lenient in that meal afterwards, says Sham will like neglect him. Shem says, Kavayoko, you're not, you don't care about your body, you don't care about your life. Why should I? How incredible. Today, fast day. Ace Lis Sanos. There's times to fast, and then there's times to eat to take care of yourself. And it's okay. It's part of what makes us ultimately healthy. It's okay. Ukavar is here, representing Zal Shah Zahir, Bafaz Shachris person, Khazal teaches us that it's important a person should try to eat breakfast, especially bread in the morning. The Kamamala summer present Zalapah Shachris. They spoke about many advantages to this. Right after Shachris, person should eat this. Breakfast, you shouldn't wait to get until he gets to the point of the day where he's like, I'm starving, right? You know that point of the day when you're like, I'm starving, I didn't eat anything. Like, don't wait to get to that point. Um, eat before right after shachris, after daviding, and take care of yourself. It's a mitzvah to do so. Vikhaim bichal shah shuh, I'm starving! Okay, fine, sorry. Enough, I just have to get that out of my system. But I happen to be pretty starving right now, being that it's vast day. Okay, Vikheim bichal, shah shu, roya, viehcha. Anytime the person is starving. Vycha, basavishta, yeah, and you should eat uh uh meat and drink wine, bikal dvaram, for things that are healthy for a person, the shame sham, it should be done with the right reasons that I'm doing this to help, to be shame sham to help me serve God, but burger says, then you should do so. And it's a good thing. Don't wait for the Itar to come and tell you, Sho Khaluswana Yachalaba, you can't serve your creator, you're so weak. Meaning a person has to know. Hashem knows really what's going on, and maybe deep down we also know what's going on. Like, where is this coming from? Am I actually hungry? Am I actually feeling weak right now, and therefore I'm eating this thing or drinking this to now serve my creator, or am I just trying to fill an empty void? Let's try to connect to that truth deep down. This is one of those things that where there's a a measure, Shahein Lem Shir. This is one of those things that there is a measure. And in this way, his body and soul will find tranquility, and that's our ultimate goal is that our body and soul will find tranquility, we'll live in harmony, we'll know when our body is hungry. And you know, I've seen in Swarm that often the body being hungry is a message that the soul is thirsty, the soul is hungry. And sp eating and drinking is something very spiritual. Taste is not something how would you describe pizza? Uh, taste cheesy and pizza, like how do you describe the taste? Taste is something spiritual in a certain realm. So when we approach eating in this proper way, that it can be done with Shem Shem Mayhem, that it can be done Shayucha Lava Vid Bar to serve our creator, then it becomes a mitzvah to do so. May we all be Zajed today on a fast day to connect to Hashem when we're not eating, and for those eating, and on times that we are able to eat, to connect to Hashem when we are eating, because in both in both situations we can do what we can do, Ratsun Hashem, we can be doing the right thing, we have to have the right attitude. And just to repeat what we said in the beginning, a person who's feeling weak should say, Ghibor Ani to approach and attack every day and say, I'm strong, I could do this. We've got this. Wishing you all the best. And Ritz Hashem, through these next couple weeks, yes, it's a time of hardship, it's a time of difficulty for the Jewish people, it's a time of sorrows. But in Rid Hashem, we should be able to look in the mirror and say, Gibor, Ani, I'm strong. I will get through it. And Ritz Hem, this year, the Tishba will be a Yuntif, wishing you all the best and a meaningful rest of your fast.
