The Pedagogy of Hunger: How God Used Starvation to Teach Israel What Sustains — Deuteronomy 8:2-3

You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not. He humbled you, and allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know; that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth. — Forty years of engineered deprivation to destroy the assumption that bread keeps you alive.