Judaism’s Food Obsession: The Kabbalah on Eating Steak
Since Biblical times, our people seem to have had an almost obsessive love affair with food. This lecture opens by demonstrating how food has played such a central role in our sacred tradition; even defined our religious experiences since the very beginning. The fascinating journey into our earliest historical narratives leads us on a quest to discover what’s behind it all. Delving into secrets of the Kabbalah, we open windows into the deeper meaning of consumption; and by extension life and the very purpose of Divine creation!
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Rabbi Mendel Kaplan is the Spiritual Leader and Executive Director of Chabad Flamingo in Thornhill, Ontario, serving one of Canada’s most dynamic Jewish communities. He also serves as Chaplain of the York Regional Police Service. He is an active member of Toronto’s Vaad HaRabbanim (Council of Orthodox Rabbis), and a voting member of the COR Kashruth Council of Canada’s executive rabbinical board. Rabbi Kaplan is featured regularly on many local television and radio shows. He is a sought after speaker, with hundreds of lectures on Chabad.org. He and his wife, Faygie, are blessed with eight children. Artistically endowed, the rabbi enjoys drawing, sketching and creating charcoal portraits.
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Food is special for All Jews are not unique in their relationship with food. Even before Jews existed the Torah shows our early precessors also were vitally involved in what they should not eat and disobeyed!