While
\n I’m busy with preparations for tomorrow evening’s seder, our
\ncommunications fellow Clare has some timely thoughts for you on food,
\njustice, and Pesach:<\/p>\n
“You are what you eat” is an expression whose literalism used to Choosing what I eat reflects who I am, as we now live in the age of But I should not generalize too much, as the saying “you are what you So there are two sides to the question of food justice to be addressed: We live in God’s world, but we tear it apart, dismantling natural In the Pesach seder, the dramatization of redemption is symbolized by Wishing you all a very healthy and happy Pesach. Please click here<\/a> to make a donation to Keren B’Kavod<\/i> to While I’m busy with preparations for tomorrow evening’s seder, our communications fellow Clare has some timely thoughts for you on food, justice, and Pesach: “You are what you eat” is an expression whose literalism used to annoy me – I ate an apple; have I become an apple? – but I have come to understand […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nannoy me – I ate an apple; have I become an apple?<\/em> – but I have
\n come to understand it differently: I must eat everyday, and several
\ntimes a day, so that eating is an essential action, and one so vital it
\ncould seem mundane were it not for the joy of good food and the sanctity
\n of the act of eating. Many of us say a bracha <\/em>over food,
\nsignifying the sacredness of what we are about to consume; the blessing
\nis said over bread and not wheat, which emphasizes the necessary
\ncollaboration of man and God to make the world work ethically. <\/p>\n
\nglobalized food, in which a visit to the supermarket presents a dazzling
\n array of options from around the world, complicating the decision of
\nwhat to eat, and making every purchase a potential reflection of
\npersonal identity.
<\/p>\n
\neat” contains its opposite as well: if you do not eat, then you are
\nnot<\/em>. Mahatma Gandhi said, “there are people in the world so hungry
\n that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread,” words
\nwhich strike me at once as true and undeniable, even though I have no
\nidea of what it means to be truly hungry.<\/p>\n
\nfor those of us who face an overabundance of food, which food should we
\neat? Which way of eating is most ethical, the best for the planet? And
\nfor the hungry, how do we feed those living in overpopulated and
\nimpoverished parts of the world, and how do we feed them justly?<\/p>\n
\nsystems, dismissing what we do not know or understand, and implementing
\nour own inferior models. And yet, worrying about what we put in our own
\n mouths is only half the battle: eating is an action, a choice – we must
\n take responsibility not only to feed ourselves in the most ethical way
\npossible, but to satisfy the hunger of others as well. For those who
\nare hungry and cannot choose when or what they eat, they are denied a
\nfull existence: you are what you eat. <\/p>\n
\nwhat we eat, when bread is transformed from the bread of affliction into
\n the bread of freedom. That action, also heralded by the teaching “let
\nall who are hungry come and eat,” is the blueprint for food justice.<\/p>\n
\nprovide meals for those who would go hungry this holiday season.
\nAnd click here <\/a>to read Rabbi Eric Yoffie’s recent
\nthoughts on Judaism and food. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"