Mark 14:6-9
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6 But Jesus said, “Let her alone.
Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for Me. 7 For you have the poor with you always, and whenever you
wish you may do them good; but Me you do not have always. 8 She has done what she could. She has come beforehand to
anoint My body for burial. 9
Assuredly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world,
what this woman has done will also be told as a memorial to her.”
And
John 12
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1 Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to
Bethany, where Lazarus was who had been dead,
whom He had raised from the dead. 2
There they made Him a supper; and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those
who sat at the table with Him. 3 Then
Mary took a pound of very costly oil of spikenard, anointed the feet of Jesus,
and wiped His feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of
the oil.
4 But one of His
disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, who would betray Him, said, 5 “Why was this fragrant oil not sold for
three hundred denarii
and given to the poor?” 6 This he
said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the
money box; and he used to take what was put in it.
7 But Jesus said, “Let her alone; she has kept
this for the day of My burial. 8 For
the poor you have with you always, but Me you do not have always.”
Luke 7:36-40
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36 Then one of the Pharisees asked Him to
eat with him. And He went to the Pharisee’s house, and sat down to eat. 37 And behold, a woman in the city who was
a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at the table in the Pharisee’s
house, brought an alabaster flask of fragrant oil, 38 and stood at His feet behind Him weeping; and she
began to wash His feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of
her head; and she kissed His feet and anointed them with the fragrant
oil. 39 Now when the Pharisee who had
invited Him saw this, he spoke to himself, saying, “This Man, if He were
a prophet, would know who and what manner of woman this is who is
touching Him, for she is a sinner.”
40 And Jesus answered and said to him, “Simon, I have
something to say to you.”
So he said, “Teacher, say it.”
We know that this Mary was Miryam Ha'Achot-Eliezer v'Marta. Another Mary, Miryam m'Migdal, was healed of seven demons (cf. Mark 16:9, Luke 8:2). And they weren't taken out of all their pain, hunger, and suffering right away. But something kept them going. A most-important hunger and thirst was fulfilled. What was it? Hatoldah shel HaShomronit Yehudit can tell you:
A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.”
8 For His disciples had gone away
into the city to buy food.
9 Then
the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink
from me, a Samaritan woman?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.
10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you
knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you
would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” 11 The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have
nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living
water? 12 Are You greater than our
father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his
sons and his livestock?”
13 Jesus
answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I
shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will
become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”
15 The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me
this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.”
(A Parsha Katan: Mayim L'Chaim)
And
22 On the following day, when the people who were standing
on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, except that
one which His disciples had entered,
and that Jesus had not entered the boat with His disciples, but His disciples
had gone away alone— 23 however,
other boats came from Tiberias, near the place where they ate bread after the
Lord had given thanks— 24 when the
people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, nor His disciples, they also got
into boats and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus. 25 And when they found Him on the other side of the sea,
they said to Him, “Rabbi, when did You come here?”
26 Jesus answered them and said, “Most assuredly, I say to
you, you seek Me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate of the
loaves and were filled. 27 Do not
labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting
life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His
seal on Him.”
28 Then they said
to Him, “What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?”
29 Jesus answered and said to them, “This
is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.”
30 Therefore they said to Him, “What sign
will You perform then, that we may see it and believe You? What work will You
do? 31 Our fathers ate the manna in
the desert; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to
eat.’”
32 Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you,
Moses did not give you the bread from heaven, but My Father gives you the true
bread from heaven. 33 For the bread
of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
34 Then they said to Him, “Lord, give us
this bread always.”
35 And Jesus
said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger,
and he who believes in Me shall never thirst. 36 But I said to you that you have seen Me and yet do not
believe. 37 All that the Father gives
Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out.
38 For I have come down from heaven,
not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me. 39 This is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all
He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.
40 And this is the will of Him who
sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting
life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”
(A Parsha Katan: Lechem M'Shamayim)
As for me, I've admittedly had to Google and otherwise online-wise learn HaLashon shel Avoti; since I myself (as I've explained several times) never got the chance to get Ivrit or Yidish passed down to me. But that's a part of the hunger and thirst that I've had to have fulfilled: first coming to Mashiach and then having to discover b'Ezrat Mashiach a heritage and a chosenness that I missed for much of my life-- and a heritage that is much more fulfilling than the Anusi, Self-Hating heritage that my dad and his parents (and much of our family) had, has, and sadly continues to have lived with.
So I in my own situation-- as both Miryams and the Shomronit Yehudit learned in their own situations-- that one may not be able to end physical or other hungers right away and in this lifetime; but one can-- b'Ezrat Mashiach-- fulfill spiritual hunger, which is the most-important hunger to fulfill.
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