This website built with the support of KBY supporter, Debby
McNeil. By Rabbi Uri Themal "Akavya Ben Mahalal'el said: Reflect
upon three things and you won't have cause to sin. Know where
you came from and where you are going, and before whom you will
render account and reckoning (Avot: 3:1)". During the journey in
the wilderness, the nation had not yet understood the wisdom of
these words. Instead, they display selective memory when they
once again complain about the food in the desert: "We remember
the fish, which we ate in Egypt gratis, the marrows and water
melons and hay and onions and garlic." (Numbers 11:5). Really!
Is this all they can remember from Egypt? They don't remember
the slavery, no forced labor, no beatings by Egyptian
supervisors, no cruel decrees and most importantly, the lack of
construction material that they had to prepare themselves for
the construction of Pharaoh's luxury cities. So, if they did not
give them material for their buildings- would they give them
good food? And Luzzatto ad