"He subjected you to the hardship of hunger and then fed you manna, which neither you nor your fathers had ever known, in order to make known to you that man does not live on bread alone, but that man may live on anything that the LORD decrees." (Deuteronomy 8:3)
"The heavens ("Shamayim") belong to God, but the earth He gave over to man ." (Psalms 115:116)
The Vilna Gaon teaches that the essence of Shamayim (the heavens) is that it is “Sham”, it is “there”. It is the ultimate not-here, and thus unknown, mysterious, inaccessible. Join us to unpack what it may mean to eat food from "there" rather than from here on earth, in other words, to eat Manna rather than bread.
