And he wept until Hakadosh Baruch Hu said to him, “Alright! I accept your protest and I am going to give you a different menu; I’m going to give you an elite diet, only aristocrats will have it, only mankind. ם∆ח∆ל לַכ‡ָֹּ̇יךּ∆פַ‡ ַ̇ﬠ≈זּ¿ב – You are going to eat bread.”
Bread! Bread is unusual. No creature in the universe has bread except man. Do you know why? Because it’s a dignity to eat bread. It’s a mark of distinction.
When Adam heard that, ֹוּ̇¿עַּ„ הָר¿רַ̃¿̇ƒנ – so his mind was calmed. He was satisfied. Because that’s a demonstration that there’s nobody in the universe that can compare to me. I am reminded that I am the tzelem Elokim and I and my children forever will always have an ois, a testimonial that we are not animals! That we should never sink to the level of animals in behavior, in morals, in derech eretz, in our attitude towards the world.
And so we see that the diet of Adam Harishon was a very important part of his world hashkafa. It was an important foundation for his awareness of the truths of the Torah and his knowledge of who he was.
