What does G-d eat for lunch?
Before you indignantly hit reply and berate me for such an obviously sacrilegious question, consider first that the Torah itself refers to G-d’s “bread.” What does it mean when the Torah refers to the sacrifices offered in the Temple as “G-d’s Bread”? Obviously G-d doesn’t eat!
Or does He?
And if the sacrifices in the Temple are G-d’s food, what has He done for the past almost 1900+ years since the Temple was destroyed? Has He gone hungry?
Here’s the deal with sacrifices - they were about elevating all of reality. They were about highlighting how everything that we interact with in this world is part of a greater purpose. That’s why all parts of creation were involved in the process: man, animal, plant and mineral.
There was man; the individual who was offering the sacrifice and the Cohen who ministered. Then you had the item of the sacrifice - either an animal or grain; two more parts of creation. And finally, every sacrifice had to include salt, a mineral.
When we use the physical world around us for holy purposes, we are accomplishing the same thing as sacrifices once did. We are providing G-d with His metaphorical “lunch.” Just as food that we consume becomes part of our body, so too the world and all that’s in it is revealed to be one with G-d.
The amazing thing about this is that, unlike during Temple times, we can achieve this goal anywhere and anytime. We can transform our own little corner of the world into a sanctuary for G-d.