אלו ספק צרכנו במדבר ארבעים שנה ולא האכילנו את־המן דינו “If God had supplied our needs in the wilderness for forty years but had not fed us the manna dayyenu.” Instead, God could have troubled us by making us plow, plant and harvest in the wilderness. He could have performed a great miracle for us even if we had to make it happen. After all, we had become used to all hard labor in Egypt, as is written, “with harsh labor at mortar and bricks and with all sorts of tasks in the field.” (Ex.1:14) But God wanted to feed us manna, the food the angels ate, in order to purify us of materialism so that we would become like angels.