Chulent

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Rabbainu made it very clear that even though the main honor of Shabbos is eating, and on Shabbos all the eating is Divine, even still it is forbidden to eat harmful foods even on Shabbos. Even still the accepted holy custom of the Jews, especially with the holy custom chulent, is to push the body to the limit, and for many this means that after Shabbos they will be attending to their bodily needs for many hours. This is a strong show of faith in the sanctity and eminence of Shabbos, that even the body on Shabbos is more important than the soul of after Shabbos, and it is proper to indulge the body with even a fleeting delight, a few minutes of gorging, at the price of a few hours of non-Shabbos time which would be put to Torah study, prayer, and good deeds.

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