I have been slowly learning how food affects us spiritually, mentally, physically, all the way to how our soul will operate. Learning under
@Jeffrey-siegel has brought me to a point where I do not look at food the same way. That is why I thought of sharing these with you. What I want is not what I get.
From the book Advice:
Rabbi Nachman: ADVICE (LIKUTEY ETZOT) by Rabbi Nathan of Breslov
Eating
6) When a person is sunk in the desire to eat greedily it is certain that he is far from truth. A person like this is under the force of the Divine aspect of severe justice. Greed is a sign of impoverishment to come, and will subject him to contempt and embarrassment (47).
7) When a person manages to break his desire for food, God works miracles through him (Ibid.).
8) There are people who sleep away all their days. Some of them have fallen into their sleep because of their desires and wrongdoing. There are other cases, of people who possess genuine goodness and beauty of character. But their fall came through food. Sometimes a person may eat food which was not sufficiently purified to be fit for human consumption. Then his mind falls into a “sleep”. When a person eats in holiness and purity, his face, and the inner “face”—that is his soul —becomes radiant through his eating. But when he eats without holiness the food damages his heart, and the result is that he loses that inner face and he falls into a “sleep”. He may still think that he is serving God, occupied as he is with Torah and prayer. But he is “asleep”, and all his devotions remain below in the lower worlds. God has no pleasure from them. It is vital to arouse him from his sleep. But the only way it can be done is if he stirs himself a little first. The tales and stories told by the Tzaddikim have the power to rouse those who are asleep, so that their days will not be wasted. It is a great thing to be privileged to find a Tzaddik like this who can stir you from your sleep. Otherwise you could sleep away all your days, God forbid (60: 6).
