The Torah promises that if we observe the mitzvot and sincerely love God, we will enjoy timely rain and bountiful crops:
“I will give plants in your field for your animals; and you will eat and be satiated.” (Deut. 11:15)
Rav Abba Aricha, the celebrated third-century scholar, called attention to the order of the verse: first the animals eat, and only then the people. He learned from here that one should not eat before first placing food before one’s animals.
Why is this? Should not people eat first, since they are more important? Are not humans ‘the crown of creation'?
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