\u201cThe rabble who were among them had greedy desires \u2026 we only see the manna.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We should ask the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1) What does it mean that they desired? Simply a desire? It should have said, \u201cdesired meat.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2) What is the connection between asking for meat and the fact that they ate fish?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3) What does \u201cfor free\u201d mean?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
4) They were not angry that they counted, but only about the meat, so why did they mention all the kinds?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
5) RASHI interpreted, \u201cDid they not have meat? Rather, they sought to slander.\u201d We should understand that it is not the conduct of one who abuses to ask for something that can be given to him right away, meaning meat, which was in their possession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To explain all this, we must first bring the discernments that apply to transgressors: \u201cTo anger,\u201d and \u201cfor good appetite.\u201d There is also a medium, meaning although he has no lust, he woos cures and remedies so as to have lust and to enjoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eats with good appetite means that he is unable to conquer the inclination because lust has stung him. The medium discernment is that he searches for lust in order to enjoy. This is worse than one who already has lust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Conversely, \u201cto anger\u201d means that even though he has no lust, he does it in order to vex, as our sages said about King Amon who had intercourse with his mother. They asked him, \u201cWhat pleasure did you derive from what you did?\u201d He replied, \u201cI do this only to anger my Creator.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It seems we should interpret the above words that they became lustful, meaning that they searched for things that would bring them lust, like the above-mentioned medium. Although they had meat, they did not have lust. Conversely, in Egypt they had acrid things that invoked in them the lust for eating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is why it is written, \u201cfish for free,\u201d meaning that even though it was free, namely that they would throw them away because they were not good anymore, they could still eat it because through the garlic and the onions, such great lust awakened in them that they could eat anything. But now, \u201cwe only see the manna\u201d (Yesod HaTorah<\/em>, Rabbi Baruch Kasov).<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cThe rabble who were among them had greedy desires \u2026 we only see the manna.\u201d We should ask the following: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":6246,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"topic":[26],"class_list":["post-12503","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","topic-rabash"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n