[Avodah] bal tashchis

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off-list  exchange: 

>>This is a common minhag --  to always leave a little something on the 
plate,  
>> never eat the last  crumb.  Is it a chassidishe minhag?  I don't  know.  
  I  
>>grew up with  it.   It's based on a pasuk somewhere  that I can't quite   
>>retrieve from my memory  box -- something about thanking  Hashem because 
you have   
>> enough food to be  satisfied and even have food left  over.  [--TK] 
>>  Might that be ve’achalta, vesavata you are thinking  of? 
Or  maybe “savanu vehosarnu kidvar Hashem”?  << 

>>>>>
I don't think either of those two is quite what I was  trying to remember 
but there's a clue in that zemer, “savanu vehosarnu kidvar  Hashem.”    
 
"Kidvar Hashem."  What dvar Hashem is the song  alluding to?
 
 

--Toby  Katz
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