Again, a chapter with famous verses, and with the source for Burkhat Hamazon, the archetype of all our blessings over food and other areas of personal sustenance and pleasure.

The danger in this chapter is not idolatry. It is prosperity, comfort, wealth, and lifestyle, standard of living.

The opposite of the wealth in the natural land of Israel, is the wilderness. It is the memory of the wilderness experinec which is to educate us to appreciate that everythimng we have is, in fact, a blessing.