Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on Exodus 16:21 preserves a detail almost invisible in the Hebrew but rich in the Sages' imagination: when the sun grew hot, the uncollected manna did not simply vanish. It liquefied, and made streams of water, which flowed away into the Great Sea; and wild animals that were clean, and cattle, came to drink of it, and the sons of Israel hunted, and ate them.
Follow the motion. Manna that was not gathered melted. The melt became streams. The streams flowed all the way to the Great Sea, which is the Mediterranean. Along the route, wild animals, kosher ones, drank the sweetened waters. And those animals, now fattened on the divine bread, were themselves hunted and eaten by Israel.
This is an extraordinary piece of ecological midrash. Nothing is wasted. The manna that Israel did not gather did not dry up and disappear. It became the diet of the animals that Israel would later eat. The blessing of heaven made a long journey through the food chain before returning to its original recipients.
The Sages read this as a theological statement about divine provision. What looks like waste in the wilderness is often just a longer supply chain. The Holy One does not let His gifts fall into the sea and vanish. He routes them through creation, feeding wild creatures on the way, and brings them back to the people for whom they were originally prepared.
The Maggid draws the takeaway. Do not mourn the manna you failed to gather. It is not lost. The Holy One is already turning it into something else that will return to you by a route you did not plan. Generosity in creation is circular. What you miss today may come back to you tomorrow in a form you did not expect.