Jews & Food - Lesson 1

"In the Beginning There Was Supper"

With Rabbi Ari Sollish

(Recorded live at the Intown Jewish Academy on January 24, 2019)

The first time G-d speaks to man in the book of Genesis, it is to give him one commandment: A list of trees from which he can and cannot eat. From Adam and Eve to Isaac and Jacob, all the way through the Prophets and beyond, Judaism is rife with links between spiritual pursuits and gastronomic experience. But why? What is the connection between the soul and the stomach? And can food -- the most basic of human necessities -- really be a gateway to the Divine? Find out in this first taste of Jews & Food.