[Avodah] Parshas Bahaloscha: Rav Shamshom Rephael Hirsch - Rioting Over Food?

[Prof. Levine]

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Parshas Bahaloscha: Rav Shamshom Rephael Hirsch - Rioting Over Food?

After travelling a few days in the midbar, certain elements of Bnei 
Yisroel got a craving for meat and complained to Moshe. Moshe spoke 
to Hashem and Hashem sends them an abundance of meat with which they 
stuff themselves with and die. However right in middle of this 
narrative Hashem tells Moshe to gather seventy men on whom Hashem 
will grace them with the spirit of Moshe. Why do these pasukim 
interrupt right in middle of this seemingly non related story?

Rav Shamshom Rephael Hirsch answers that Bnei Yisroel were 
complaining about there physical conditions and their hunger for 
materialism. To this Hashem told Moshe that it is not meat that they 
lack that is causing them to revolt, it is their lack of 
spirituality. They feel empty but don't understand the true cause. 
Gather seventy representatives and feed their starving souls with 
Torah and Mitzvos. Then their appetites will be satiated with the 
true pleasure of dveykus in Hashem and they will no longer riot over food.

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