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Daily Chizuk #1440
Parnasa / Money
Paying with Joy: Fulfilling Financial Mitzvot
The pasuk says that Hashem is משביע לכל חי רצון, which seems to be saying that Hashem provides nourishment for every living creature.
However, the midrash asks, if so, it should have said that Hashem is משביע לעל חי מזון, referring to food. Why does it say the word רצון, meaning desire? The midrash answers, this pasuk is coming to tell us that Hashem does not only satiate a person with food. He gives every person exactly what he desires.
For 40 years, Hashem sustained the Jewish people in the desert with mann. The midrash says, if a person at that time would have just thought, I'm really in the mood for a certain type of food, Hashem would make the mann that he was eating taste exactly like that food. This took place at every meal that millions of people ate over the course of the 40 years in the desert.
However, the midrash asks, if so, it should have said that Hashem is משביע לעל חי מזון, referring to food. Why does it say the word רצון, meaning desire? The midrash answers, this pasuk is coming to tell us that Hashem does not only satiate a person with food. He gives every person exactly what he desires.
For 40 years, Hashem sustained the Jewish people in the desert with mann. The midrash says, if a person at that time would have just thought, I'm really in the mood for a certain type of food, Hashem would make the mann that he was eating taste exactly like that food. This took place at every meal that millions of people ate over the course of the 40 years in the desert.
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