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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... separation . Creation is the bringing of order out of chaos largely through acts of separation , division , distinction . This view is encouraged by the language of the text : the word " divide " or " separate " ( badal ) occurs ex ...
... separation . Creation is the bringing of order out of chaos largely through acts of separation , division , distinction . This view is encouraged by the language of the text : the word " divide " or " separate " ( badal ) occurs ex ...
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... separation ) from the profane ( chol , " common " ; from a root meaning " to bore , to wound , to dissolve , to break " -in short , " to destroy wholeness and form ” ) . God's first speech after this episode of the strange fire gives ...
... separation ) from the profane ( chol , " common " ; from a root meaning " to bore , to wound , to dissolve , to break " -in short , " to destroy wholeness and form ” ) . God's first speech after this episode of the strange fire gives ...
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... separation , and intelligibility . The practice of the dietary laws reflects and achieves the separation of the people , around the rule of separation , to celebrate through obedience the holiness and separateness of the holy source of ...
... separation , and intelligibility . The practice of the dietary laws reflects and achieves the separation of the people , around the rule of separation , to celebrate through obedience the holiness and separateness of the holy source of ...
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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