About the food at the AJL conference
In shul yesterday I was reading Rabbi Sacks' commentary on the parsha, and thought of my recent experiences at the AJL. He is talking about Moshe at his lowest ebb, in the depths of despair, and Sacks writes: "The precipitating cause was seemingly slight. The people were engaged in their favourite activity: complaining about the food." About their slavery in Egypt, "All they can recall is the cuisine." They had experienced the revelation and the Tabernacle, and they also had food - they had manna. Their complaint about the food was that it was boring. "They had reached the spiritual heights but they remained the same recalcitrant, ungrateful, small-minded people they had been before," Sacks writes. So maybe things really haven't changed so much over the millennia, if that's any solace.
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