פן תאכל ושבעת... ורם לבבך ושכחת את ה' אלקיך
Lest you shall eat and become full and your heart will become haughty and you will forget Hashem.
Oy. Gashmiyus. Can't live with it; can't live without it. It's so hard not to remember that there is a G-d in the world when I'm a few holes into my Sunday morning golf. The Pasuk says that "וישמן ישורון יבעט" - And the Yidden will get fat and kick. Sometimes getting to much Brachah makes us bit full of ourselves. It's called biting the hand that feeds you.
R' Zusheh M'Anipoli zy"a taught a deep lesson on this Pasuk, but first a story:
Even when the table was set and the food was ready to be served, R' Zushe would stand up from his chair and look towards the heavens. He would say, "Ribono Shel Olam! Zusheh is hungry! Zusheh wants to eat! Please send him some food." He would repeat this process a few times and only then would he eat.
Why go through this? The food was already ready! Rather, once the meal is ready it's easy to fall into a trap of וישמן ישורון יבעט. R' Zusheh wanted to make sure that didn't happen. He wanted to eat in Hashem's presence. Let's go back to the Pasuk.
It's true that Gashmiyus can make us go astray, but there is a higher path. The angels don't understand Aramaic. It's a sister language of Lashon HaKodesh. Sometimes words spelled the same way in each language can have different meanings that teach us one about the other.
In Aramaic, the word שכיח means available and found. The Passuk could be read that your heart will be proud you will forget Hashem. But if we use this alternative understanding the Pasuk now says, פן תאכל ושבעת... ורם לבבך ושכחת את ה' אלקיך - When you eat well and you raise your heart to a an elevated state; there shall you find Hashem. ושכחת את ה' אלקיך. Connecting to Hashem with the Olam HaZeh that He provides us with is the highest level of all.
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