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Sefer Charedim, chapter 26, paragraph 29,
page 120 of menukad edition:“The Creator commanded that we not
imitate the ways of idol worshippers…the ways of idol worshippers include:
eating and drinking excessively…”NOTE: The original source of this quote is
Rabbi Eliezer ben Samuel of Metz, a Tosafist
who died in year 1198 of the Common Era.This is a hoodwink
He winks in his wink hood
Without a good wink hood
A hoodwink can’t wink hoodTheodore Geisel
Aka Dr. SeussHow much wood
could a Woodchuck chuck
if a Woodchuck
could chuck woodTheodore Morse
it’s not the cough that carries you off, it’s the coffin they carry you off in
I do not find SQUARE_ROOT’s intention to be self-evident.
I also do not understand the relevance of the first response.
(Perhaps if I understood SQUARE_ROOT’s intention…?)The Chasam Sofer interprets the pasuk in Devarim (12,20) כי ירחיב וכו’ ואמרת אוכלה בשר,when Hashem will extend your borders as He promised and ‘you will say’ I want to eat meat. Why do you have to say? The Torah wants one to be able to control oneself by saying one wants to eat meat before eating as if one does not do that, will turn into a glutton and eat without control. This happens to be a good advice for dieting.
One will go after one’s desires. The Ramban says on קדשים תהיו says קדוש עצמך במותר לך sanctify yourself from the permitted.
Old MacDonald had a farm
Ee i ee i o
And on his farm he had some cows
Ee i ee i oh
With a moo-moo here
And a moo-moo there
Here a moo, there a moo
Everywhere a moo-moo
Old MacDonald had a farm
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