Food and Spirituality
Denial or Delight?
Denial or Delight?
Aviva Richman
Food, and the enjoyment of eating, are Divine gifts - and should be appreciated as such. At the same time, there is a spiritual life from which food can be not only a distraction, but at times even a threat. This set of sources explores the various positions in the Jewish tradition for navigating, and even synthesizing, these competing religious intuitions.