Kedusha Of The Jewish Kitchen
(Paper-cutting by Amira Nagr)Received via e-mail from Rabbi Dovid Sears as a preview of the Shabbos section of the Breslov Center's ongoing Breslover minhagim project:
Reb Noson Sternhartz, son of Reb Avraham, once related the following anecdote to Rabbi Moshe Bienenstock: His grandmother Chanah Tzirel said that her father, Reb Noson, once entered their little kitchen on Friday, while the women were preparing food for Shabbos. He told them:
“You should know that the cooking you do in honor of the Shabbos is comparable to the work that the Kohanim performed to prepare the korbonos in the Beis ha-Mikdosh!”
(Heard from Rabbi Moshe Bienenstock)
2 Comments:
Very interesting. I've already commented on your earlier post about Shechita, Rebbe Shloime Twerski ztvk"l, who ran the Denver shlact-haus (slaughterhouse) ["Denver meat" at that time had the reputation for being the best hecksher in America!] used to tell us, especially when women complained about the "drudgery" in the kitchen, that the Beis HaMikdash was, for a good part of the time, "one big kitchen" as the Kohanim were busy all day with Korbanos!
Tzemach:
It is not boring if you are a woman who must work hard doing very mundane things like mopping floors and peeling potatoes and boiling chicken bones l'kavod Shabbos. It is actually a big chizuk to know this! The Beis HaMikdosh was a House of Prayer, and the Leviim sang and played beautiful music there -- but it was also a kitchen!
When's the last time you fed a houseful of hungry people for Shabbos?
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