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Sacred food

hindupridemn

Defender of the Truth
What kind of sacred food does your religion (or others you are familiar with) have? As a sacrifice or way to get more spiritually in touch that may have been blessed in some way. Examples are the Eucharist in Catholicism and Orthodoxy, Sacrament in LDS, prasad in Hinduism.
 

Iti oj

Global warming is real and we need to act
Premium Member
I think any food made mindfully can be "sacred"
 

Bob Dixon

>implying
I think any food made mindfully can be "sacred"

True enough, but that's not what OP means.

In Christianity, we have bread and wine. They are blessed and, according to belief, become the body and blood of the Christ, though how literally to take this has been debated a lot.
 

Levite

Higher and Higher
We Jews don't necessarily have holy food, the way that Christianity, for example has the bread/wafer and wine of the Eucharist.

Most of our holidays involve celebratory meals, though, and food and drink have a significant importance in our tradition as measures of quality of life and celebration.

Most of our holidays, and many of our lifecycle events, are inaugurated by making a blessing over a cup of wine.

On the holiday of Passover, we remove from our houses all foods with leavening or yeast, and do not eat them; and at the Passover Seder, which is both the central celebratory meal of the holiday and the central ritual of the holiday, we eat matzah (unleavened bread), bitter herbs or roots, and charoset (a kind of fruit relish made from apples, nuts, wine or grape juice, spices, and various other additions, like sundry other fresh or dried fruits, or matzah, or even sometimes peppers), which are symbolic foods deeply integral to observing the holiday.

And, of course, we keep kosher. Many kinds of animals, birds, and sea creatures are forbidden to us to eat, and those that are permitted must (except for fish) be killed be a Jewish ritual slaughterer in the proper fashion. We cannot eat meat and dairy products together: we even keep separate sets of dishes and cooking utensils for them.
 

Ben Dhyan

Veteran Member
My understanding of the meaning of the symbolism of the bread and wine of the Eucharist is one based on the understanding of the absolute nature of God being immanent in all things and simultaneously transcendent to all things.

Jesus realized this underlying unity of the apparent/perceived multiplicity of manifested reality and so made that point when he said that... 'the Father and I are one'.

He then takes this theme of God being the underlying unity of all things further when it comes to acknowledging the sacrifice of the On High in all that we eat and drink by implying in that the bread they ate was His body (God's) and the wine they drank was His blood.

Unfortunately the literal interpretation of his words has displaced the metaphorical one and we end up him being God and the incredible transubstantiation concept.
 
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