Eat and Love Hashem

Holy people find joy in eating “before Hashem”: the gratitude for food, with the awareness that they ate “before Hashem,” was their joy...

​The holy nation that loves Hashem, in order to augment this love, they eat and rejoice before Him; and thereby they gain the acquiescence of the body together with the mind to evoke the strongest feelings of devotion to Hashem. Eating is one of the most effective means of achieving the emotions of Gratitude and of Love for Hashem. — Fortune Nation