[Avodah] healthy eating and exercise--hashkafic aspects

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, July 4, 2007 4:26 pm, Moshe Feldman wrote:
: Moreover, when a person succumbs to his ta'avos and eats too much
: unhealthy food, he is in danger of falling into the trap of living in
: order to eat, rather than eating in order to live, which violates kol
: ma'asecha yi'hu l'shem Shamayim.

Defining the value of the middah of perishus in a nutshell.

It's not asceticism, but avoiding the those things that can drop you
into that trap. Ideally, the nazir would be able to handle wine
constructively, rather than it posing a trap he can't resist.

Tir'u baTov!
-mi

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