Spiritual Food

In the seventh and final aliya of Parshas Ki Tisa, the Torah says, "While Moshe was on Mount Sinai, he remained there with Hashem for forty days and forty nights he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water."

Whenever we eat physical food, we are nourishing our bodies, same to whenever we learn Torah and do Mitzvos we are consuming spiritual food, which nourishes our souls.

Although when Moshe was on Mount Sinai, he did not eat any physical food, he did consume a lot of spiritual food by learning with Hashem the Torah for forty consecutive days and nights.

In the seventy-eighth chapter of Tehillim (psalms), it says, "humans ate the bread of angels he sent them food for satisfaction" This verse refers to Moshe on Mount Sinai.

Angels live off and are nourished by their understanding and by internalizing their intellect of the existence of Hashem that is what keeps them going, identical to that is what kept Moshe going on Mount Sinai.

It says that as a direct outcome of these revelations that angels see, they get a spiritual high (so to speak) and, as a natural outcome, start to sing praises about Hashem. This is a true delight.

We too can experience such spiritual delight by learning Hashem's Torah, as long as we know Torah in the way of Moshe, which means that we must be constantly aware of Hashem (who is the giver of the Torah), because at times there are many people even great Rabbis and Scholars who get so excited and caught up with the intellectual aspects of the Torah that they forget that the whole reason and purpose of why we learn Torah is just as a tool for us to connect with Hashem, in an authentic and close way.

Let us learn from Moshe, and always before we know, take a second and think about how we are about to strengthen our relationship with Hashem.