Eating Certified Kosher Meals Everyday

"There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

~Albert Einstein

 

It is a miracle that I live in a residence where I am being served kosher meals everyday. The meals I am eating are certified and approved kosher.

 

What types of meals? I had kosher veal yesterday; kosher pizza last Saturday night; kosher cranberry-glazed pastrami; cheese blintzes with whipped cream on top. Oooooo every food I am eating is top notch and will not ruin my spirituality as a Jew! I am so thankful to Adonai to be given this opportunity. There is no pork at all kept in our kitchen. The salt and pepper and sugar all have the hechsher on them, and we have challah bread every Friday night and Saturday morning and afternoon. I do a motzei and repeat the Challah bread blessing at every meal, not just on Shabbat.

 

I am not an Orthodox Jew; I am a Conservative Jew. We as Conservative Jews honor Adonai and keep kosher in our eating habits as do the Orthodox Jews.

 

We get warm kosher bagels with kosher cream cheese and kosher jam for breakfast; or we get kosher French toast, kosher eggs, kosher cereal, kosher cow's milk, and many other delicacies.

The dishes are not glass; but they all have been made kosher to eat on. If one eats on glass; this is automatically kosher dishware. If one keeps one's dishes in storage unused for 1 year--they are considered kosher no matter what they are made of. Or dishes and silverware can be boiled in water in pot that is all metal (no wooden handles) and this is a way to make dishes kosher. The blessing of the Shehecheyanu is chanted while the water is boiling the dishes. This blesses the foods that are served in them even further and is significant in keeping kosher (and therefore spiritual) the Jewish way. I am looking forward to each meal that I am served, as a way to keep spiritual, and also to eat a nutritionally balanced diet.

 

 My Synagogue is participating in a project called "The SNAP Project" and many of us Jews will be eating for one week only the gov't given food stamp allotment  that is given to the poor. The reason we are doing this is to show the poor that we care; to offer compassion to them; and to raise money to help them. If one is homeless or jobless, when one cannot financially afford to buy much food--it is almost impossible to keep kosher. Even if one chooses vegan eating and eats no kosher (or non-kosher) meat.

I am so utterly blessed to be getting this kosher food at my residence. This indeed is a miracle of Adonai.