[Avodah] bal tashchis

[Simon Montagu]

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:28 PM, <T613K at aol.com> wrote:

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> >>This is a common minhag -- to always leave a little something on the
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> >> never eat the last crumb.  Is it a chassidishe minhag?  I don't  know.
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> >>grew up with it.   It's based on a pasuk somewhere  that I can't quite
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> >>retrieve from my memory box -- something about thanking  Hashem because
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> >> enough food to be satisfied and even have food left  over. [--TK]
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> *>> Might that be ve’achalta, vesavata you are thinking of?*
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> *Or maybe “savanu vehosarnu kidvar Hashem”? <<*
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> 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.”
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> "Kidvar Hashem."  What dvar Hashem is the song alluding to?
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The zemer is alluding to 2 Kings 4:44
http://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt09b04.htm#44, but I think the minhag not to
eat the last crumb is based on the principle "ein beracha sheruya al makom
reikan". I don't remember the exact reference, but AFAIR the Zohar learns
this from the way the lehem hapanim was replaced so that the shulhan was
never left empty, and Elisha's question at the beginning of the same chapter
"Ma yesh lach babayit?"
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