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Purposes of Drinking Parties in Esther? [Video Clip]
In this clip from the 60th episode of The Jewish Drinking Show, “Drinking Parties in the Book of Esther”, Professor Joshua Joel Spoelstra and Rabbi Drew Kaplan discuss the different purposes of the drinking parties in the book of Esther:
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Peripety in the Book of Esther [Video Clip]
In this clip from the 60th episode of The Jewish Drinking Show, “Drinking Parties in the Book of Esther”, Professor Joshua Joel Spoelstra and Rabbi Drew Kaplan discuss how Esther’s wine parties change the direction of the book of Esther:
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משתה in the Bible [Video Clip]
In this clip from the 60th episode of The Jewish Drinking Show, “Drinking Parties in the Book of Esther”, Professor Joshua Joel Spoelstra and Rabbi Drew Kaplan discuss the different purposes of the drinking parties in the book of Esther:
Drinking Parties in the Book of Esther
Introduction The 60th episode of The Jewish Drinking Show features a discussion on the drinking parties in the book of Esther, featuring first-time guest Professor Joshua Joel Spoelstra. Guest Bio Professor Spoelstra is a professor of World Religions at Piedmont College, the Pastor at Downtown Community Fellowship in Clemson, SC, and whose dissertation was “Life-preservation in Genesis […]
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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. […]