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The Purim Katan Episode [The Jewish Drinking Show, ep. 151]
With the 14th of the first Adar coming up in just a few days, how is this day to be celebrated? After all, it is still kind of like Purim. Indeed, it has become known as Purim Katan – the little Purim. The newest episode of The Jewish Drinking Show focusses on exactly this topic. […]
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Wine Was Created to Comfort Mourners (Talmud) [Video Clip]
In this clip from the 150th episode of The Jewish Drinking Show, we discuss Rabbi Ḥanin’s comment that wine was created to comfort mourners (Eruvin 65a & Sanhedrin 70a):
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Aninut in the Talmud: No Drinking [Video Clip]
In this clip from the 150th episode of The Jewish Drinking Show, we discuss the Talmud saying no to drinking…unless on Shabbat (Berakhot 17b-18a):
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Greco-Roman Libations, featuring Prof. Sacha Stern [Video Clip]
In this clip from the 135th episode of The Jewish Drinking Show, Prof. Sacha Stern discusses Greco-Roman libations:
Attitudes Towards Gentile Wine in the Talmud
In this clip from the 135th episode of The Jewish Drinking Show, Prof. Sacha Stern discusses Talmudic attitudes towards gentile wine:
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Compulsive Libationers of the Talmud?, featuring Prof. Sacha Stern [ep. 135 of The Jewish Drinking Show]
Introduction Having discussed gentiles and libations previously on The Jewish Drinking Show, I was fascinated to have come across Professor Sacha Stern’s “Compulsive Libationers: Non-Jews and Wine in Early Rabbinic Sources”, Journal of Jewish Studies 64.1 (2013): 19-44. As such, I am very excited to welcome him to the show’s 135th episode to share his research. Biography […]
Comparing the Torah to Beverages (Ta’anit 7a)
In this clip from the 113th episode of The Jewish Drinking Show, Dr. Elana Stein Hain discusses Rabbi Oshaia‘s statement comparing the Torah to three beverages (wine, water, and milk):
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Talmudic Parables of Wine with Looks, featuring Dr. Elana Stein Hain [The Jewish Drinking Show episode 113]
Torah is discussed as being compared to wine in the Talmud (Ta’anit 7a), which then causes an intriguing story to emerge involving a parable of wine and how looks are involved. To discuss these Talmudic texts and more, the 113th episode of The Jewish Drinking Show features Dr. Elana Stein Hain. Dr. Stein Hain is […]
The Rabbinic Abstraction of the Symposium into the Term חבורה in Tannaitic Texts
In this clip from the 112th episode of The Jewish Drinking Show, Dr. Orit Malka discusses the rabbinic abstraction of the symposium into the term חבורה in Tannaitic texts, using Mishnah Berakhot 6:6 and Tosefta Berakhot 4:8:
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The Term חבורה (havurah) in Tannaitic Literature, featuring Dr. Orit Malka [Episode 112 Of The Jewish Drinking Show]
A term that doesn’t seem to have any obvious connection with drinking חבורה (havurah) – yet, it comes up not infrequently within a drinking context in early rabbinic (tannaitic) literature. As such, the 112th episode of The Jewish Drinking Show is dedicated to exploring this connection featuring Dr. Orit Malka. Dr. Malka is a researcher […]