Prepare me the kind of tasty food I like and bring it to me to eat, so that I may give you my blessing before I die. The blessing is connected to the meal — the covenant act of eating together precedes and accompanies the formal pronouncement of blessing. The meal is not incidental but covenantal. The application: the combination of the physical (food, presence, touch) and the formal (blessing, speech) in this ceremony reflects how the covenant tradition understood that blessings are embodied, not merely verbal.

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