פירוש על ברכות 33:12

cf. Matt. xxii. 30.

I.e. their beholding God was the equivalent of eating and drinking. Thus it is said of Moses that, during his stay on Mt Sinai, he neither ate nor drank (Exod. xxxiv. 28) but was nourished from the lustre of the Shekinah. See Exod. Rab. 3:1.