Archive: October 2017

Jeremiah 29:7

Posted on October 13, 2017

Seek the peace of the city in which you live, for though its peace you shall have peace.

Exodus 25:2

Posted on October 13, 2017

Of every man whose heart prompts him to give you shall take my offering.

Rav Hai Gaon

Posted on October 13, 2017

Three possessions shall you prize, A field, a friend and a book.

Song of Songs 2:3

Posted on October 13, 2017

Under its shadow I delighted to sit, and its fruit was sweet to my taste.

Talmud Derech Eretz Zuta 9

Posted on October 13, 2017

Always be happy when you are sitting at your table and those who are hungry are enjoying your hospitality.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

Posted on October 13, 2017

It is good, yea, it is beautiful, to eat and drink and to experience goodness with all his toils under the sun.

Mishnah Sofrim 3:14

Posted on October 13, 2017

We must not eat food disgracefully and we must not throw food from place to place.

Maimonides, Mishneh Torah Hilchot Issurai Mizbayach 7:11

Posted on October 13, 2017

When you give food a hungry person, give him your best and sweetest food.

Sefer Maalot Hamiddot

Posted on October 13, 2017

When he chances on something to eat, he calls on his fellow to eat with him. Sometimes he even chooses food and places it before them.

Samuel II 6:19

Posted on October 13, 2017

(David) distributed to all the people…a loaf of bread, a portion of beef and a container of wine.