[Avodah] The Main Idea of Judaism

[hankman]

RMB quoted:

"Rabbi Chizqiyah beshem Rav: Asid
adam litein din vecheshbon al kol shera'as einav velo akhal"? (Closing
of Y-mi Qiddushin.)

R’nTK quoted:

Ta'amu ure'u ki tov Hashem


CM speculates:
The Y-mi doesn’t give a mekor for this memra. I speculate that perhaps it is the pasuk in Tehilim that R’nTK quoted. This is in the sense that the pasuk tells us that we should (are required to) taste of the world so that we should recognize the goodness (read hatava) of HKB’H (and come to bless H’ for it). (This would be better if the pasuk was reversed – re’u veta’amu. This also conflates two different meaning of this shoresh – 1) to see (or to come across in our context) 2) to comprehend).

In looking around I found a Meshech Chachma that relates this memra of the Y-mi to the pasuk in Bereishis “mikol eitz hagan ochol tocheil.” See MH on Br. 2:16. (not as merely permission to choose among all the fruits of the Gan but in the sense of an imperative to in fact be toeim from all the fruit of the Gan).

Kol tuv

Chaim Manaster
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