[Avodah] Bal Tashchit

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From: Micha Berger _micha at aishdas.org_ (mailto:micha at aishdas.org) 


>> R' Yaakov Moshe haKohein Lessin, the Slabodka alumnus who was  mashgiach 
at
YU (short bio  <http://www.yu.edu/riets/index.aspx?id=28202>), famously
never finished  a dessert. As an exercise in self-discipline, there was
always a bit of cake  (or whatever) left on his plate. <<





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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.  It is 
considered unrefined to eat every last crumb on your  plate.  It suggests that you 
would really like more food and are not  satisfied.  It is rude to the hostess 
(if you're a guest) and seems  ungrateful to Hashem.
 
Of course leaving too /much/ on the plate is also rude to the hostess as  
well as wasteful....
 
 
We Jews have remarkable guilt mechanisms in place for every occasion, don't 
 we?
 
 

--Toby Katz
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