Putting a Piece of Blemished Food on our Shabbat and Holiday Table
After a recent Torah-study class where we learned Parashat Bo (Exodus: 12), I stepped into an inviting grocery store suffused with the mixed aromas of coffee, fruit, cheeses, exotic spices and more. Everything looked beautiful. But then I noticed a man in an employee’s uniform take ten large pears, put them in a plastic bag, walk to a trash bin and start to throw them away. What a horrible job, I thought, to throw away … [Lees verder]