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499) “And you shall eat and be satisfied, and bless the Lord your God.” And before a person eats until he is satiated and his stomach is full, does he not bless the Creator? Why does it write, “And you shall eat and be satisfied,” and then, “And bless”? Rather, even if a person eats as much as an olive, wishes for it, and regards that food as his main dish, he is considered full, as it is written, “You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.” It does not write, “The eating of every living thing,” but “The desire of every living thing.” This means that the desire that one puts into the food is called “satiation,” even when there is only as much as an olive before a person, but he has put into it a desire of satiation. This is why it is written, “And satisfy the desire of every living thing.” It writes, “desire,” and not “eating.” This is why “And bless,” meaning that one must bless the Creator to give joy above.
500) “And you shall eat and be satisfied” means that a drunk is permitted to bless for the food. But in prayer, a drunk must not pray because the prayer is good without eating, since the prayer rises to a place in which there are no eating or drinking, to Bina. It is said about it that there are no eating or drinking in the next world, but in the rest of the degrees below, there are eating and drinking.
501) In the blessing for the food it follows that a blessing out of satiation is good because the blessing for the food is in a place where there is eating and drinking, in Malchut, from whom food and satiation come down below. For this reason, one should display satiation and joy before Him. But it is not so in a place where the prayer reaches because it rises higher, to Bina, where there are no eating or drinking. This is why a drunk will not pray a prayer.
502) A drunk is permitted to bless the blessing for the food, as implied in the text, “And you shall eat and be satisfied, and bless.” “And you shall eat” means eating. “And be satisfied” means drinking because one who is full of wine is satiated, and this is the drunk.
It is written, “And bless the Lord your God.” “The” implies Malchut, in whom there are eating and drinking. It means that the blessing for the food requires joy and satiation, from the words, “Unto the good land.” “Good” means satiation, as it is written, “And we will be satisfied with bread and be well.” This is why we need joy and satiation.
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