The Torah relates that as a result complaining the Jews received two things; Mon, or Manna, and the Slav, or quail. Mon was served in the morning, and Slav in the blackness of night.
Rashi wonders why weren’t they both served together, during the day? He answers that the Jews asked for bread and meat. Bread is a justifiable request, one needs to eat in order to live. But why did they need meat? Isn’t that a luxury? So Hashem gave it to them, but in a grudging and unsuitable sort of way – they received it at night.
Perhaps there is a lesson here; if we ask Hashem for things, and we ought to, let them be necessities, not luxuries. Otherwise we may receive our luxuries in a very different way than we would have wished for!
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