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On 8/8/2013 11:32 AM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:shalomyitz@comcast.net">shalomyitz@comcast.net</a> wrote:
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OK. I deliberately made my subject header provocative... Of course we
have<br>
to agree with the Torah in the sense that we have to obey the Torah.
However,<br>
I want to know if we have to be happy about everything that HaShem
commands<br>
us (or, at least try to). I may wish that I could eat bacon; obviously
I can't do it, but<br>
is it a problem if I want to and wish the Torah made bacon kosher?<br>
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Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah says "From where do we see that a man should
not say 'Pork disgusts me; therefore I won't eat it', but rather, 'I
want it, but what can I do, seeing that my Father in Heaven has decreed
against it'?"<br>
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Lisa<br>
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