He Man The manna that fell from heaven in the desert for the people of Israel was bread from heaven, a divine spiritual food whose characteristics were supernatural—it possessed all the flavors of the world and had no waste. On the other hand, regarding the Man It is written: "Who made you eat Man to grieve you," that is, the Man It did not provide true satisfaction to those who consumed it, because it came in a fixed quantity, enough for only one day, and "it is not the same to have bread in your basket as to not have bread in your basket." In other words, the affliction consisted of the doubt of whether the next day the bread would come down. Man Or not. In turn, even though the Man He had every taste in the world, however, "it's not the same for someone who can see and eats as for someone who can't see and eats" - those who ate the Man They didn't see the specific foods that had the tastes they felt on their palate.
Here we find a contradiction: wealth and poverty reigned in the same meal. This same meal, which on the one hand was utter perfection and possessed every flavor, generated in the consumer a feeling of distress and dissatisfaction. The truth is that there is no contradiction at all, but rather two sides of the same coin.
He Man, In its very essence, it was something extraordinary, a Divine, limitless bread. Precisely for this reason, when it descended into the limited, material world, the world was unable to absorb it and express its limitless characteristics in material definitions. The carnal eye cannot see infinite tastes, and therefore the Man It generated a lack of satisfaction. In order to receive the Man As it was in itself, unlimited, men had to rid themselves of their human limitations.
Feeding on Man In the desert, it constituted the preparation to fulfill the Torah and its precepts in the Land of Israel, giving the strength to overcome the two types of difficulties that man faces: the test of wealth and the test of poverty.
Wealth harbors a danger: it can lead to the belief that one's own strength and power are responsible for success. The challenge of experiencing poverty is to attain the conviction that "no evil comes from above," and that even suffering comes from the Most High, who is absolute goodness.
He Man It offers us a lesson in both directions. The rich learn from Man, that wealth comes from Above, and is not the fruit of human effort. The poor learn from Man, that the Divine flow, as it comes from Above, consists of extraordinary goodness, only that it is not always perceived as such.
The path to receiving the blessings that come from Above is to completely free oneself from the feeling of "my strength and the power of my hand," and to rely entirely on the Most High. When a person frees themselves from personal worries and believes in God, who is the Source of goodness and well-being, then they become worthy of seeing the blessing in the work of their hands and of receiving Supreme Goodness in the earthly world as well.
The same applies on the spiritual plane: the path to receiving the light of the Torah, called "bread from Heaven," and especially the "inner part of the Torah" (Pnimiut HaTorá), "which has no waste whatsoever" - it is through this that man becomes an "empty vessel," abstracted from his personal preconceptions. He becomes worthy of absorbing the infinite light of the Torah.
Adapted from www.jabad.org.ar