[Avodah] bal tashchis

[Chanoch (Ken) Bloom]

On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 00:28 -0500, T613K at aol.com wrote:
> 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?

II Kings 4:43-4:44: But he (Elisha) said "Give it to the people and let
them eat, for so said Hashem: Eat and leave over!". He placed it before
them, and they ate and left over, as Hashem had said.

The latter verse is part of Birkat Hamazon in the Sephardic nusach,
included in the set of pesukim that follows Migdal/Migdol at the end.

--Ken