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How could Bnei Yisrael desire physical food when they were being 6 bamidbar
supported by spiritual sustenance? Furthermore, they remembered the
food they had eaten in Egypt, the land of their oppression. Bnei Yisrael
did not have to exert themselves in the least regarding the manna, for it
was immediately ready to eat. How could they demand food that needed
preparation?

“Torah was given only to those who ate manna.” Torah is compared to
manna. Just as the manna was the perfect food, completely absorbed by
the body, so too, is the Torah perfect and whole. Bnei Yisrael fled from
Har Sinai as a child flees from school. Their inability to recognize the
perfection of Torah blurred their vision to the perfection of the manna,
eventually causing them to become disgusted by it.
The Yetzer Hara recognized the greatness of Bnei Yisrael. Therefore, he
injected into them the passion for the physical. How great is the power of