[Avodah] Must we agree with the Torah?

[Lisa Liel]

On 8/8/2013 11:32 AM, shalomyitz at comcast.net wrote:
>
> OK.  I deliberately made my subject header provocative... Of course we 
> have
> to agree with the Torah in the sense that we have to obey the Torah.  
> However,
> I want to know if we have to be happy about everything that HaShem 
> commands
> us (or, at least try to).  I may wish that I could eat bacon; 
> obviously I can't do it, but
> is it a problem if I want to and wish the Torah made bacon kosher?

Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah says "From where do we see that a man should 
not say 'Pork disgusts me; therefore I won't eat it', but rather, 'I 
want it, but what can I do, seeing that my Father in Heaven has decreed 
against it'?"

Lisa
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