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VEeTanMtiiaEpnehsgsgtiahflfolferarorosmch Hu by Janet S. Sunness, M.D.
Restoring Sanctity to Eating …
and to the Rest of our Lives here are a number of lessons
we can learn from Megillas
Esther to help us with compul-
sive eating and, in general, with

T behaviors we would like to
modify. Some of these have
been discussed in previous arti-
cles in this series, which are
available on the Where What When
website.

Feel full and complete, not lacking:
Haman had only one person
(Mordechai) who did not bow down to
him, and it was worth nothing to him
that everyone else did bow down. He
could not perceive himself as “full,”
only as “lacking.” He inherited this bad
trait from Adam’s eating of the Tree of
Knowledge. Adam (Eve is included
with Adam here) could eat from any
tree in the garden but one. The ser-
pent was able to convince Eve that
she was lacking something, until she
could not stand it and ate. This is one
interpretation of the connection of
Haman to the word “hamin” (both
spelled H-M-N). Haman’s essence is

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