If only we had meat to eat . . .

This week's Torah portion, B'haalot'cha, states: "The people took to complaining bitterly before the Eternal . . . The riffraff in their midst felt a gluttonous craving; and then the Israelites wept and said, 'If only we had meat to eat!" (Numbers 11:1, 4)  God replies, "The Eternal will give you meat and you shall eat.  You shall eat not one day, not two, not even five days or ten or twenty, but a whole month, until it come out of your nostrils and becomes laothsome to you.  For you have rejected the Eternal who among you by whining . . ."

God gives the people quails, and they eat so much that a plague kills many of them.

I have been thinking more and more about vegetarianism.  I will try to blog on that later. 

Shabbat Shalom