Day 160: There Is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch
Society dictates that there are rules for hosts and guests. Obviously a host should be giving and generous and a pleasant presence, but what about guests? I mean where did we learn that our guests have the right to choose what to eat or what to watch or do? Or that if we are a guest, we should bring something for the host? Or that if we are the guest, we should politely refuse any additional comforts the host might offer?
It never occurred to me that Judaism would have guidelines about being a guest. Shocking, I know, but really, I never considered it. Of course we should be gracious, accepting, and amiable, but we are also supposed to praise our hosts for their generosity up one wall and down the other to as many people as possible. That way, other people might benefit from the generosity of the hosts the same way we have.
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