What is the benefit of prohibiting breathing into a vessel, licking the fingers before wiping them, forbidding eating while reclining, and dividing water consumption into two or three sips?

The benefits of these legal actions are in compliance with the command of the Wise Lawgiver and the belief that they are the essence of wisdom and benefit.

The prohibition of breathing into a vessel is to maintain conduct and cleanliness and to avoid health harms.

Licking the fingers before wiping them is following the Sunnah, seeking the blessing of the food, and showing respect for it.

The prohibition of eating while reclining is out of humility towards Allah and to show servitude, as well as to preserve health by avoiding the harm of eating in this posture.

Dividing drinking into two or three sips is more quenching, healing, and safer for the stomach, and helps in the gradual subsidence of the heat of thirst.