The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our NatureFree Press, 1994 - 248 pagini What is the full meaning of eating? What does it reveal about the soul? What is the meaning of human omnivorousness and the myriad customs that refine human eating, transforming animal feeding into human dining? This book examines the phenomena of eating, natural and cultural - from metabolism, appetite, and taste, to hospitality, table manners, and the ritual meal, and reveals how eating not only feeds the body but also nourishes the soul. |
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Pagina 196
... ( torah ) of the beast and of the fowl and of every liv- ing creature that moves in the waters and of every creature that swarms upon the earth ; to make a difference ( lehavdil ) between the unclean and the clean , and between the living ...
... ( torah ) of the beast and of the fowl and of every liv- ing creature that moves in the waters and of every creature that swarms upon the earth ; to make a difference ( lehavdil ) between the unclean and the clean , and between the living ...
Pagina 197
... Torah day and night ( Joshua 1 : 8 ) , admittedly as a preparation for obedience , but to meditate nonetheless , and the First Psalm calls blessed the man whose delight is in the law of the Lord and who meditates in it day and night ...
... Torah day and night ( Joshua 1 : 8 ) , admittedly as a preparation for obedience , but to meditate nonetheless , and the First Psalm calls blessed the man whose delight is in the law of the Lord and who meditates in it day and night ...
Pagina 220
... Torah says it is because " he does not chew the chew , " using the cognate ac- cusative construction ( vehu gerah lo yiggar ; 11:17 ) , presenting by im- plication , as it were , the ideal of the perfect fit of activity and object . The ...
... Torah says it is because " he does not chew the chew , " using the cognate ac- cusative construction ( vehu gerah lo yiggar ; 11:17 ) , presenting by im- plication , as it were , the ideal of the perfect fit of activity and object . The ...
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activity appetite Aristotle awareness Babette Babette's feast become begin bodily body bread bread and salt Brillat-Savarin cannibalism carnivores cells Chapter chewing civilized common conversation creatures cultural customs Cyclops desire dietary laws dining dinner party distinction divine drink earth eater edible especially ethical example eyes fact feed flesh freedom fruit Genesis grace guests hand holy hospitality host human eating human form hunger Ibid incisors kind least Leo Strauss Leviticus liberality living form living things look man's manifest Margaret Visser material matter meal means meat metabolism mind moral motion mouth nature necessity neediness Nicomachean Ethics nourishing Odysseus omnivorousness one's organism ourselves philosophical pleasures Polyphemos possible powers present principle psychic question rational rational animal reason regarding relation salt self-conscious sense separation share sight social soul speak speech strangers taste tion tongue Torah transformation true unclean upright posture vegetarian virtue whole wine