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Sforno on Deuteronomy 32:14/ספורנו על דברים ל״ב:י״ד

אוְדַם עֵנָב תִּשְׁתֶּה חָמֶר. מִיץ הָעֲנָבִים הָיָה רָאוּי לִשְׁתִיָּה בִּלְתִּי רַב מְלָאכָה בּוֹ, וּבְכֵן הָיוּ מִתְפַּרְנְסִים שֶׁלֹּא בְּצַעַר. וְכָל זֶה עָשָׂה לָהֶם הָאֵל יִתְבָּרַךְ כְּדֵי שֶׁיִּהְיֶה לָהֶם פְּנַאי לַעֲסוֹק בַּתּוֹרָה וּבַמִּצְוֹת.
1ודם ענב תשתה חמר, grape juice was fit to drink without investing much toil beforehand. This is an example of people earning their livelihood easily. The reason why G’d had arranged things in such a fashion was so as to leave the people ample time to study Torah, and to enable them to fulfill the various commandments of the Torah which do consume time.