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Created page with "Man was miraculous food that the Yidden ate during Yetzias Mitzrayim. It began falling on the 16th of Iyar, one month after they left Mitzrayim, and fell every weekday for 40 years, until the day they approached crossing the Yarden to enter Eretz Yisroel. The Man had wondrous properties, and one could taste all types of food in it. Along with it, precious stones and pearls would also fall. == History == After Yetzias Mitzrayim and Krias Yam Suf, the Yidden began advanc..." |
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After Yetzias Mitzrayim and Krias Yam Suf, the Yidden began advancing toward Eretz Yisroel. During their journey, they complained to Moshe and Aharon that they had nothing to eat, saying they preferred returning to Mitzrayim where they had abundant food, and they would rather be enslaved there than die of hunger in the midbar. | After Yetzias Mitzrayim and Krias Yam Suf, the Yidden began advancing toward Eretz Yisroel. During their journey, they complained to Moshe and Aharon that they had nothing to eat, saying they preferred returning to Mitzrayim where they had abundant food, and they would rather be enslaved there than die of hunger in the midbar. | ||
Following this, Hashem promised to give the Yidden food day by day, and in addition to the Slav (quail), He brought down bread from heaven: | Following this, Hashem promised to give the Yidden food day by day, and in addition to the Slav (quail), He brought down bread from heaven:<blockquote>"They journeyed from Eilim, and the entire congregation of Bnei Yisroel came to Midbar Sin, which is between Eilim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departure from Eretz Mitzrayim... And Hashem said to Moshe: Behold, I will rain down bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather each day's portion in its day..." | ||
— Shemos, Chapter 16</blockquote>This bread was called Man because Bnei Yisroel didn't know what to call it and said "Man Hu" (What is it?). | |||
— Shemos, Chapter 16 | |||
This bread was called Man because Bnei Yisroel didn't know what to call it and said "Man Hu" (What is it?). | |||
Another name for this bread is "Lechem Abirim," which has a double meaning: This bread is heavenly bread eaten by the Malachim called 'Abirim,' and it was absorbed in the limbs where the person eating it did not need to eliminate waste. | Another name for this bread is "Lechem Abirim," which has a double meaning: This bread is heavenly bread eaten by the Malachim called 'Abirim,' and it was absorbed in the limbs where the person eating it did not need to eliminate waste. | ||