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Translating משתה in the Mishnah [Video]
In this clip from yesterday’s episode of The Jewish Drinking Show, Professor Jordan Rosenblum and I discuss translating משתה in rabbinic literature as either “Drinking event” or “Drinking party”:
An Initial Consideration of the Drinking Events in Megillat Esther
Over this recent Purim, I was curious to keep track of the drinking parties, since I knew there were multiple such events, but hadn’t quite remembered what each of them were. While tracking them, though, I was fascinated to not only have a sense of what they were, but maybe also somewhat of a pattern. […]