Comments on: Rub-a-dub-dub http://jcarrot.org/rub-a-dub-dub/ Jews, Food, and Contemporary Issues Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:42:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus http://jcarrot.org/rub-a-dub-dub/#comment-2612 Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus Wed, 05 Sep 2007 03:16:32 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/rub-a-dub-dub/#comment-2612 Nice! I've generally viewed brachot as ways of turning mindless into mindful eating, as you have expressed so eloquently. But I also like the way the "freaking beauty" of the corn you were eating prompted a mindful brachah. Really mindful eating seems to be the reciprocal effect of good food on the mind (via our taste buds and eyes) and of the mind on good food. Nice! I’ve generally viewed brachot as ways of turning mindless into mindful eating, as you have expressed so eloquently. But I also like the way the “freaking beauty” of the corn you were eating prompted a mindful brachah. Really mindful eating seems to be the reciprocal effect of good food on the mind (via our taste buds and eyes) and of the mind on good food.

]]> By: Rachel http://jcarrot.org/rub-a-dub-dub/#comment-2608 Rachel Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:51:43 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/rub-a-dub-dub/#comment-2608 Making brachot is probably the Jewish practice that resonates the most for me. I love the way it can allow me to be called to wakefulness and gratitude again and again over the course of every day. I try to make brachot over everything I eat, and not only to say them but also to really feel them. Too often, though, I get distracted, and do exactly what you describe -- eat while on the phone, while in the car, while at my desk doing six other things. Thanks for this post and its reminders that I can do better than that. :-) Making brachot is probably the Jewish practice that resonates the most for me. I love the way it can allow me to be called to wakefulness and gratitude again and again over the course of every day.

I try to make brachot over everything I eat, and not only to say them but also to really feel them. Too often, though, I get distracted, and do exactly what you describe — eat while on the phone, while in the car, while at my desk doing six other things. Thanks for this post and its reminders that I can do better than that. :-)

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