Devarim/Eikev - Mountains of Copper
In Devarim parsha Eikev we read (Deuteronomy 8:9) אֶ֗רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֨ר לֹ֤א בְמִסְכֵּנֻת֙ תֹּֽאכַל־בָּ֣הּ לֶ֔חֶם לֹֽא־תֶחְסַ֥ר כֹּ֖ל בָּ֑הּ אֶ֚רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲבָנֶ֣יהָ בַרְזֶ֔ל וּמֵהֲרָרֶ֖יהָ תַּחְצֹ֥ב נְחֹֽשֶׁת׃ - A land where not in scarcity shall you eat bread. You shall lack nothing in it; a land whose stones are iron and from whose mountains you shall hew copper. We may surmise that eating of the bread is related to iron, because plows which till the land are made of iron, and therefore with the help of those plows the land will be well-prepared for sowing and growing wheat from which bread is made. But that leaves us with the second pairing in that pasuk , namely that lacking nothing must be somehow related to the mountains of copper. It is as if the Torah is saying that the "lacking nothing" will be assured thanks to the "mountains of copper". So this begs the question: what does copper have to do with satisfying one's desires, so much so that one feels like