QUESTION
When do you know how to enjoy this world and when do you know to be a porush from this world?
ANSWER
And the answer is whatever is good for your health you should use and enjoy it. If you like to eat bread and butter, and it’s good for you, eat it with simchah. Why not? If you like to eat chicken, and it's good for you, then eat it with simchah. Don't say, “I don't like to eat.” No. You have to eat with appetite. The saliva will flow and it helps you to digest. Your stomach juices flow; it helps you digest. Appetite helps you digest. Enjoy the food but at the same time יך ̃לו‡ 'ה ̇‡ ̇וברכ ̇בע ̆ו ̇כל‡ו. Thank Him. Any enjoyment you get from food or anything else, thank Hashem, thank Hashem, thank Hashem.
However, sometimes when people become enslaved to certain things— here’s a man and he’s enslaved to cigarettes; he enjoys cigarettes but he's a slave to it now. No; don't be a slave to anything except to Hakadosh Baruch Hu. A slave to cigarettes? No. Anybody who becomes a slave to anything, Hashem says, “You are competing with My service.”
A person can become a slave even to things that are superfluous to eat; always he wants to nosh things. Don't be a slave to noshing; it's not healthy. Anything that is good and healthy however, you have a right to eat and you should enjoy it and thank Hakadosh Baruch Hu for it.
April 13, 2000 ה"ע יהודה זאב 'ר בן ברוך 'ר נשמת לעילוי Printed by: 732.400.5020 | Bidrachav.org Join thousands of men whose lives have already been impacted by the Mitzvas Habayis Shiurim of Hagaon R’ Yitzchok Silver Shlita
