Shalom Chaverim,
Please print out the following resources before the study. Limud Pore 🙂
1) B’reshit 1:29- Initially what we’re supposed to eat.
“And God said, “Behold, I have given you every seed bearing herb, which is upon the surface of the entire earth, and every tree that has seed bearing fruit; it will be yours for food.”
2.1) B’reshit 1:30 – How are the herbs described?
“And to all the beasts of the earth and to all the fowl of the heavens, and to everything that moves upon the earth, in which there is a living spirit, every green herb to eat,” and it was so.”
2.2) Rash”i comments:
it will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth: He equated cattle and the beasts to them [to man] regarding the food [that they were permitted to eat]. He did not permit Adam and his wife to kill a creature and to eat its flesh; only every green herb they were all permitted to eat equally. When the sons of Noah came, He permitted them to eat flesh, as it is said (below 9:3): “Every creeping thing that is alive, etc.” Like the green herbs, which I permitted to the first man, I have given you everything. — [from Sanh. 59b]
3.1) B’reshit 6:12 – Torah for human as they are, instead of how they should be (R Yossef Albo)
“And God saw the earth, and behold it had become corrupted, for all flesh had corrupted its way on the earth.”
3.2) B’reshit 9:3-4 Among other crimes, people started to eat limb torn from a living animal, then came one of the Noahides commandments:
“Every moving thing that lives shall be yours to eat; like the green vegetation, I have given you everything. But, flesh with its soul, its blood, you shall not eat.”
Q. Is it a temporary/ permanent situation?
4) B’reshit 9:2 – The change in the animals – humans’ relations.
“And your fear and your dread shall be upon all the beasts of the earth and upon all the fowl of the heaven; upon everything that creeps upon the ground and upon all the fish of the sea, [for] they have been given into your hand”
5) B’reshit 9:4 Fleyshick kitchen: ‘added Mitzvot’ or ‘Bad spiritual situation’?.
“But, flesh with its soul, its blood, you shall not eat.”
Same with:
– Laws of a proper slaughtering.
– Not mixing with Dairy.
– Waiting until the next Dairy meal.
– Not even all animals are permitted to eat in the first place.
Q. Can the blessing over meat indicate something?
Thought:
One verse after, the Torah writes the prohibition of humacide, as customary to explain by our sages: “But your blood, of your souls, I will demand ..” (B’reshit 9:5)
– Is it just a coincidence?
6) Sh’mot 16:15, B’midbar 11:7 The Manna – A second attempt for vegetarianism?
“..and Moses said to them, It is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat.”
“Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance was like the appearance of crystal.”
7) B’midbar 11:3-34 Israel’s urge for meat, described as ‘Graves of craving’.
3: “But the multitude among them began to have strong cravings. Then even the children of Israel once again began to cry, and they said, “Who will feed us meat?”
5: “We remember the fish that we ate in Egypt ..”
10: “Moses heard the people weeping with their families,each one at the entrance to his tent. The Lord became very angry, and Moses considered it evil.”
19-20 “You shall eat it not one day, not two days…But even for a full month until it comes out your nose and nauseates you. Because you have despised the Lord Who is among you, and you cried before Him, saying, “Why did we ever leave Egypt?”‘”
31: A wind went forth from the Lord and swept quails from the sea and spread them over the camp..”
32-34: “The people rose up all that day and all night and the next day and gathered the quails. [Even] the one who gathered the least collected ten heaps. They spread them around the camp in piles. The meat was still between their teeth; it was not yet finished, and the anger of the Lord flared against the people, and the Lord struck the people with a very mighty blow. He named that place Kivroth Hata’avah [Graves of Craving], for there they buried the people who craved.”
8) D’varim 12:20 The final permission for eating meat. ‘Meat of lust’.
“When the Lord, your God, expands your boundary, as He has spoken to you, and you say, “I will eat meat,” because your soul desires to eat meat, you may eat meat, according to every desire of your soul.”
9) D’varim 8:7-10 The promised land, description.
7: “For the Lord your God is bringing you to a good land, a land with brooks of water, fountains and depths, that emerge in valleys and mountains, a land of wheat and barley, vines and figs and pomegranates, a land of oil producing olives and honey, a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, you will lack nothing in it, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose mountains you will hew copper. And you will eat and be sated, and you shall bless the Lord, your God, for the good land He has given you.”
10) Isaiah 11:6-9 In the days of Messiah.
“And a wolf shall live with a lamb, and a leopard shall lie with a kid; and a calf and a lion cub and a fatling [shall lie] together, and a small child shall lead them. And a cow and a bear shall graze together, their children shall lie; and a lion, like cattle, shall eat straw. And an infant shall play over the hole of an old snake and over the eyeball of an adder, a weaned child shall stretch forth his hand. They shall neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mount, for the land shall be full of knowledge of the Lord as water covers the sea bed.”
11) Hosea 2:20 In the days of Messiah
“And I will make a covenant for them on that day with the beasts of the field and with the fowl of the sky and the creeping things of the earth; and the bow, the sword, and war I will break off the earth, and I will let them lie down safely.”