Eat Properly and Avoid Becoming Like the Snake | Pele Yoetz | Hachzek Day 28
How are you? Day twenty-eight. Today is Sunday. I hope you had a beautiful, amazing, uplifting Shabbos. We're going to continue and complete the section of Zolo of Sove, a glutton and a drunkard. So buckle up and let's jump right in. Uh shabam shekolesh, yoika. By the way, buckle up. Like if you're listening to this while you're driving, like for sure. Like actually buckle up. Otherwise, it's just more of like a thing to say. Okay. Uh shabam shikolasha. Person has to realize that the food and drink that's entering into his body, you know, some of it's going to actually nourish him and help him out, but the rest of it, it's going to exit his body. Hello yeah, he has to like realize this. And like his ha his h his his body's becoming this abode that's going to have this digestive food, and he's just going to go to the bathroom. On one side, he's digesting food of Ela me polmi tama. On the other side, it causes defilement. Take a look at this. The gathering of human beings to eat and drink and I mean to drink um the gathering of humans to drink alcoholic beverages is a greater disgrace than gat the men gathering together unclothed. Elushmi Techa Hergal, but as a result of habit, because it happens all the time, people just go and hang out at the bar, whatever it is, Nasekah. It becomes normal. That's what the Rambam says. Person who's really thinking. He's a growing person. He's a yet that that wants to do more and better. He shouldn't go after eating and drinking. It doesn't mean don't eat a drink. That would be silly. And the person needs to eat and drink, but it means not to go after it like that's the thing. He's not going to go after that nifish batirch of Zutar Bishira. It's something that requires a lot of work, um, you know, the effort and either buying it or or making it, etc. And you end up coming out, um, it just has a little bit of effect. Shekalhano hibereka kemera, right? At the end of the day, you're eating something, it's geschmack, it's nice, but that pleasure is only for a moment, until it leaves the palate. You after you taste it, then no longer. You don't remember at all what the pleasure was, it's like it never what? It's like never had it. There's so many different types of foods that are, you know, can help you in certain areas, meaning that in terms of the satisfactory benefit, it's going to do the same like once it goes down into your body. The the entire effort is like that first stage. When it first enters into your mouth, um you're getting that pleasure right then. He says that in terms of all types of pleasures that exist in the world, this is like the baseline, borderline, like the most simple and basic. And a person has to realize that it's not worth the damage, the loss, the pain that it could cause if we don't take full advantage, meaning if we're not eating and drinking in the proper way, it can cause damage, loss, and pain in this world and the next. A person who has even a little bit of intellect, al Yiba Saiva Yain Bzoli Baser. He shouldn't be somebody who drinks wine in excessiveness and somebody who eats meat in a gluttonous fashion. He shouldn't walk on his belly. I think this is a takeoff. Like the Pusig talks about the snake, which is Hyli Kalgachon, it goes on its belly, it's like slithers. We don't want to be like a snake just slithering away, just feeding into our belly, meaning just being a glutton and desiring food and drink for the sake of the food and drink, for the sake of that physical pleasure, and in and as an ends, as a means, as everything, sorry, as just an ends in and of itself. That would be just like a snake slithering through life. We don't want to be that. Allah snag was say the nachon, we gotta stand erect, up tall. Again, this fits with the symmetry of a snake. The snake before it sinned, right? It was a walking creature, but then it went on its belly. So we don't want to be like that on our belly. We want to be a Nachun. We want to be standing erect, up tall, straight, like a human being. With this, Hashem will be gracious unto us, Ezra Hashem. So eating and drinking is part and parcel of our life. It's very important. But I think I mentioned this that Rabinachman teaches that you know it's one level to learn to have the kaya. Sorry, it's one level to eat to have the kaya to learn, right? But it's another, it's a higher level to learn in order to know how to eat. So eating is an available. There's sparks, there's neutse kadusha. But at the end of the day, the paleoids, I think, this is what I'm gleaning from these last couple days with the Paleoids in this topic, is don't overdo it, don't over-indulge, don't be a save, don't do it in a gluttonous fashion where it's excessive. Because once you get to that realm of excessiveness, then you've crossed beyond the border, uh, and you've crossed beyond the realm of mutter into a realm that we don't want to be. We don't want to be in the realm of the gacha in the realm of the snake. We want to be in the realm of that which is nachel and that which is correct, that which is upright, that which is besider. Wishing you all the best, have an amazing rest of your day in Mirzushem. I'm excited for the week ahead to learn together the Halo Gibb Heliotes. And if I could just point out, Mirzushen, tomorrow we're gonna start with a new topic called Zuriya planting. If you are interested in sponsoring any of these issuerin, please reach out. 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