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Published: Thursday, March 20, 2014 2:19 PM
"You are what you eat."
This modern catchphrase finds its most perfect expression in the concluding verses of parashat Shmini:
"For I am the Lord your G-d, and you shall sanctify yourselves and be holy, because I am holy." (Lev. 11:44)
This is the only reason offered for the long list of living creatures that we can and can't eat that precedes it.
We can bring a taste of the Holy Temple to our own tables by regarding every morsel we place within our mouths as no less real than an offering upon the altar.