How the Manna Tasted to Infants and the Sick at Sinai

For the little ones it was like milk from their mother's breast, as it is stated (in Numbers 11:8): "And its taste was like the taste of rich cream." And the sick one would taste it as the taste of fine flour mixed with oil and with honey, like that barley gruel which they prepare for the sick, as it is stated (ibid.): "And they boiled it in a pot." And it says (in Ezekiel 16:19): "And My bread which I gave you, fine flour and oil and honey I fed you." Said Rabbi Yose son of Rabbi Hanina: If the manna, which was a single kind, was transformed into several appearances and into many kinds for the sake of Israel's need, then the voice, in which there was power, how much more so! Thus (Job 37:5): "God thunders marvelously with His voice…"