![Four Cups and the Holocaust, featuring Professor Samuel Levine [Episode #131 of The Jewish Drinking Show]](http://jewishdrinking.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Four-Cups-and-the-Holocaust-Samuel-Levine-The-Jewish-Drinking-Show-600x338.png)
Four Cups and the Holocaust, featuring Professor Samuel Levine [Episode #131 of The Jewish Drinking Show]
Introduction While the Passover Seder is a celebration of the freedom of our Jewish ancestors from Egyptian slavery and becoming a nation, it is hard to picture this in terms of what the experience of being in the Holocaust, as it was very much not an experience of freedom. Moreover, a cornerstone of the Passover […]
![The Innovation of Ḥametz-Selling and Its Aftermath, featuring Dan Rabinowitz [The Jewish Drinking Show Episode #130]](http://jewishdrinking.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/The-Innovation-of-Ḥametz-Selling-and-Its-Aftermath-Dan-Rabinowitz-of-Seforim-Blog-The-Jewish-Drinking-Show-600x338.png)
The Innovation of Ḥametz-Selling and Its Aftermath, featuring Dan Rabinowitz [The Jewish Drinking Show Episode #130]
Intro Having previously published episode #24 of The Jewish Drinking Show on “Whiskey As the Catalyst for the Selling of Chametz, the 130th episode of The Jewish Drinking Show delves more deeply into this topic, for which we are excited to have Dan Rabinowitz on the show to discuss this topic. Biography of Guest In […]
![Four Cups at the Seder and Consciousness, featuring Rabbi Zac Kamenetz [The Jewish Drinking Show, episode #129]](http://jewishdrinking.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Four-Cups-at-the-Seder-and-Consciousness-Rabbi-Zac-Kamenetz-The-Jewish-Drinking-Show-600x338.png)
Four Cups at the Seder and Consciousness, featuring Rabbi Zac Kamenetz [The Jewish Drinking Show, episode #129]
Introduction With Passover only a couple of weeks away, including the four cups minimum of wine at the Passover Seder, how has the transformative experience of alcohol-consumption been considered in the Jewish tradition? To share a teaching of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov (1772-1810), as written by Rabbi Nathan Sternhartz (1780-1844), on this topic is Rabbi […]
List of Kosher For Passover Tequilas 2023
The Greater Phoenix Va’ad HaKashruth has released its annual list of kosher for Passover tequilas, noting that these are silver/blanco-only tequilas, silver/blanco mezcals, and sotols, “even when KFP status is not indicated on the bottle”. This list is organized by manufacturer and comes to them courtesy of Supervisores en Calidad Kosher: Tequilas PATRON SPIRITS MÉXICO, S.A. DE C.V. […]
![Arukh HaShulhan’s Conclusion on Purim-Drinking [Clip from 127th Episode of The Jewish Drinking Show]](http://jewishdrinking.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Arukh-HaShulhans-Conclusion-on-Purim-Drinking-clip-from-The-Jewish-Drinking-Show-600x338.png)
Arukh HaShulhan’s Conclusion on Purim-Drinking [Clip from 127th Episode of The Jewish Drinking Show]
In this clip from the 127th episode of The Jewish Drinking Show, Rabbi David Fried and Rabbi Drew Kaplan discuss Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epstein‘s conclusion on Purim-drinking in his Arukh HaShulhan:
![Eliyah Rabbah’s Focus on Wine for Purim [Clip from 127th Episode of The Jewish Drinking Show]](http://jewishdrinking.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Eliyah-Rabbahs-Focus-on-Wine-for-Purim-600x338.png)
Eliyah Rabbah’s Focus on Wine for Purim [Clip from 127th Episode of The Jewish Drinking Show]
In this clip from the 127th episode of The Jewish Drinking Show, Rabbi David Fried and Rabbi Drew Kaplan discuss Rabbi Elijah Spira‘s focus on wine-drinking for Purim in his Eliyah Rabbah:
![18th &19th Century Rabbis on Purim-Drinking (Later Aharonim), featuring Rabbi David Fried [Episode 127 of The Jewish Drinking Show]](http://jewishdrinking.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/18th-19th-Century-Rabbis-on-Purim-Drinking-Later-Aharonim-featuring-Rabbi-David-Fried-Episode-127-of-The-Jewish-Drinking-Show-600x338.png)
18th &19th Century Rabbis on Purim-Drinking (Later Aharonim), featuring Rabbi David Fried [Episode 127 of The Jewish Drinking Show]
Intro Having discussed medieval rabbis’ normative writings previously on The Jewish Drinking Show, as well as 16th-17th century rabbis’ normative rabbis on Purim-drinking on The Jewish Drinking Show, I’m excited to welcome back Rabbi David Fried to discuss significant rabbinic normative writings in the 18th-19th centuries on this matter. (Here is the source sheet we used […]
![Massekhet Purim: An 18th Century Talmudic Parody, featuring Professor Richard Sarason [The Jewish Drinking Show, Episode #126]](http://jewishdrinking.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/18th-century-Purim-parody-Richard-Sarason-The-Jewish-Drinking-Show-episode-126-600x338.png)
Massekhet Purim: An 18th Century Talmudic Parody, featuring Professor Richard Sarason [The Jewish Drinking Show, Episode #126]
Introduction As Purim is a time for not only merry-making and drinking, but also for some silliness, there have also been Hebrew parodies written for Purim, including, as we have discussed before, 14th century Hebrew parodies. Moving closer to our time, the very amusing Massekhet Purim, a Talmudic parody for Purim in the 18th century, […]
![Cocktail Suggestions for Rosh HaShanah from Dan Rabinowitz [Deleted Clip from 114th Episode of The Jewish Drinking Show]](http://jewishdrinking.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Cocktails-for-Rosh-HaShanah-Dan-Rabinowitz-The-Jewish-Drinking-Show-114-deleted-clip-600x338.png)
Cocktail Suggestions for Rosh HaShanah from Dan Rabinowitz [Deleted Clip from 114th Episode of The Jewish Drinking Show]
In this deleted clip from the 114th episode of The Jewish Drinking Show, Dan Rabinowitz and Rabbi Drew Kaplan discuss cocktail suggestions for Rosh HaShanah: For other Rosh HaShanah content, here’s a video clip on drinking on Rosh HaShanah and here’s a list of suggestions for recipes for cocktails on Rosh HaShanah.
Yossie Horwitz’ 2022 Pesach Wine-Buying Guide
Yossie Horwitz, of Yossie’s Corkboard, has published his 2022 Passover wine-buying guide. As to putting together this guide, Horwitz writes I find choosing wine for our sedarim a worthy endeavor to apply some effort too, especially given the teaching by our sages that wine gladdens the heart and there is no joy without wine (and […]