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Archaeology | Bible | Brands of Beverages | Dead Sea Scrolls | Geonic Literature | Hasidut | History | Holidays | Jewish Practice | Kabbalah | Kiddush Clubs | Medieval Jewish Legal Authorities (Rishonim) | Miscellaneous | Rabbinic Literature | Second Temple Literature
Archaeology:

• Ep. 110 – Byzantine-Era Winery in Yavneh with Dr. Jon Seligman
• What A Third Century Mosaic In Sepphoris Can Tell Us About Jewish Drinking Attitudes In The Third Century with Professor Loren Spielman
• Women And Biblical Beer-Brewing with Professor Jennie Ebeling
• Beer in the Bible with Professor Michael Homan

Bible:

• Ep. 149 – The Rebellious Son (Ben Sorer Umoreh) with Dr. Rebekah Welton
• Ep. 116 – Pharoah’s Cupbearer And Baker As Cultural Conflict Of Wine Vs. Beer with Dr. Jon Greenberg
• Drinking Parties In The Book Of Esther with Professor Joshua Joel Spoelstra
• Lot, Lot’s Daughters, And Wine with Aliza Lipkin
• The Libation Episode with Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Zuckier
• Discussing Lot’s Drinking with His Daughters with Rabbi Eryn London
• Lot Gets Drunk With His Daughters with Aaron Roller
• Exploring Noah’s Getting Drunk: What Did Ham Do To Noah? with Professor John Bergsma
• Drinking in the Book of Ecclesiastes with Rabbi Daniel Epstein

Brands of Beverages:

• Ep. 148 – Boone County Distilling: Creating Fascinating Bourbon Products under Kosher-Certification with Josh Quinn
• Ep. 147 – Starting a Kosher Wine-Importing & Distributing Business with Ami & Larissa Nahari
• Ep. 145 – Jerusalem’s First (& Only) Distillery with Bennett Kaplan
• Ep. 144 – Creating a Brewery in Jerusalem with Shmuel Naky and Ephraim Greenblatt
• Ep. 143 – Creating a Brewery in Jerusalem with Ephraim Greenblatt and Shmuel Naky
• Ep. 139 – Israel’s First Whiskey Distillery with Gal Kalkshtein & Tal Chotiner
• Ep. 138 – Producing Kosher Wine in European Wineries with Jay Buchsbaum
• Ep. 128 – Thornton Distilling & Dead Drop Spirits with Ari Klafter
• Ep. 122 – A Jewish Tavern: Lehrhaus with Rabbi Charlie Schwartz
• Ep. 121 – America’s Kosher Brewery & Bakery: Long Beach Beer Lab with Harmony & Dr. Levi Fried
• Ep. 120 – Shirah Wines with Gabriel & Shimon Weiss
• Ep. 119 – Tzafona Cellars & Kosher Ice Wines with Rabbi Avraham Gislason
• Ep. 118 – KOVAL Distillery with Dr. Sonat Birnecker Hart
• Ep. 117 – Shmaltz Brewing with Jeremy Cowan & Jesse Epstein
• Ep. 109 – Jezreel Valley Winery with Jacob Ner-David
• Ep. 107 – Covenant Wines with Jeff Morgan
• Ep. 106 – Golden Moon Distillery with Stephen Gould
• Ep. 105 – DEKō Cocktails with Dan Rabinowitz
• Ep. 96 – Promised Land Beverage Co. KFP Cider, Kosher Vermouths, & More with Yoni Schwartz
• Ep. 54 – New Riff Distilling with Mollie Lewis
• Kedem Wines with Gabriel Geller
• Haykin Family Cider with Talia Haykin
• Tip Top Proper Cocktails with Neal Cohen
• Manischewitz Wine, Kedem Wine, and More with Professor Roger Horowitz

Dead Sea Scrolls:

• The Wine Festival In The Dead Sea Scrolls with Professor Marvin Sweeney

Geonic Literature:

• Ep. 136 – Terms for Beverages in Geonic Literature with Prof. Phil Lieberman
• Ep. 90 – Rav Hai Gaon on Music in the Drinking House with Rabbi Daniel Isaac

Hasidut:

• Ep. 129 – Four Cups At The Seder And Consciousness withRabbi Zac Kamenetz
• The Farbrengen Episode with Rabbi Eli Simpson
• Drinking in Hasidic Thought with Rabbi Eli Simpson

History:

• Ep. 132 – Reform Responses to Prohibition with Rabbi Zachary Goodman
• Ep. 130 – The Innovation of Ḥametz-Selling and Its Aftermath with Dan Rabinowitz
• Ep. 127 – 18th & 19th century Rabbis (Later Aharonim) on Purim-drinking with Rabbi David Fried
• Ep. 126 – Massekhet Purim: An 18th Century Talmudic Parody with Prof. Richard Sarason
• Ep. 123 – Lives Of Tavernkeeping Jews In 18th & 19th Century Poland with Prof. Glenn Dynner
• Ep. 101 – American Orthodox Attitudes to Grape Juice During Prohibition and Beyond with Dr. Yaakov Weinstein
• Ep. 100 – 19th Century Raisin Wine In America with Professor Jonathan Sarna
• Modern Israeli Wine History, part 2: More Recent History, with Adam Montefiore
• Modern Israeli Wine History, Part 1: Early History with Adam Montefiore
• Wine For 12th Century Jewish Traders In The Indian Ocean with Prof. Elizabeth Lambourn
• Jews in American Distilling History> with Maggie Kimberl
• The Mahia Episode with Chaim Grafstein
• An Introductory Overview To Jewish Drinking Through The Ages with Joel Haber
• Jews’ Involvement In The 18th Century Caribbean Rum Trade with Professor Stanley Mirvis
• How Whiskey Became the Catalyst for the Selling of Chametz with Dr. Joshua Kulp
• Jews As Tavernkeepers In 17th & 18th Century Poland with Professor Adam Teller
• Jews and Prohibition with Professor Marni Davis
• Kosher Craft Beer in the Late 2010s with Rabbi Avrahom Pressburger
• Jewish Tavernkeepers in 18th & 19th Century Poland with Professor Glenn Dynner

Holidays:

• Ep. 153 – Considering a Recent Explanation of Dropping Wine at the Passover Seder with Rabbi Dr. Zvi Ron
• Ep. 152 – Two Twentieth Century Rabbis on Purim-Drinking: Rabbi Kook & Rabbi Hutner with Rabbi David Fried
• Ep. 151 – The Purim Katan Episode
• Ep. 142 – Drinking In/Out of Sukkot (“Drinking & Discussion”)
• Ep. 131 – Four Cups and the Holocaust with Professor Samuel Levine
• Ep. 98 – Wine in Medieval Haggadah Art with Professor Marc Michael Epstein
• Ep. 97 – Suggestions For Four Cups of Wine At The Passover Seder with Brad Du Plessis
• 14th Century Purim Parodies with Rabbi Adam Rosenthal
• Early Aḥaronim on Purim-Drinking with Rabbi David Fried
• Drinking During The Ten Days Of Repentance: An Introduction
• Drinking During The Nine Days (“Drinking & Discussion”)
• Purim-Drinking in [Lubavitcher] Hasidic Thought with Rabbi Eli Simpson
• Drinking on Hanukah with Rabbi Ben Shefter
• Drinking on Sukkot

Jewish Practice:

• Ep. 150 – Drinking During Mourning
• Ep. 114 – Making Cocktails On Shabbat with Dan Rabinowitz
• Ep. 111 – Shemittah and Wine with Rabbi Ezra Friedman
• Ep. 104 – The Niddah Harḥakot Episode with Yamit Alpern Kol And Dr. Alon Kol
• Wine At Bris Milah with Rabbi Hayim Leiter
• The Origin of the Dropping of Wine At The Passover Seder with Rabbi Dr. Zev Farber
• Beer and Whiskey in Wine Containers That Previously Contained Gentile Wine with Joshua Schwartz
• Discussing Non-Wine Beverages for Kiddush & Havdallah in Post-Talmudic Literature with Professor Joshua Kulp
• Wine at Jewish Lifecycle Events with Rabbi Avi Finegold

Kabbalah:

• Kiddush in Kabbalah with Prof. Rabbi Joel Hecker
• An Early Kabbalistic Approach To Purim-Drinking with Professor Vadim Putzu
• Introduction To Wine In Kabbalah with Dr. Vadim Putzu

Kiddush Clubs:

• Ep. 125 – Kiddush Club Experiences with Udi Zinar
• Ep. 124 – Kiddush Clubs as Mens’ Clubs with Dr. Michal Shaul
• Ep. 45 – The Kiddush Club Episode with Rabbi Avi Finegold

Medieval Jewish Legal Authorities (Rishonim):

• Ep. 115 – Kosher Wine In Medieval Provence with Dr. Pinchas Roth
• Ep. 84 – Rabbi Moshe Isserles’ Censored Responsum on Gentile Wine with Prof. Marc Shapiro
• Ep. 83 – Medieval Rabbis on Gentile Wine with Prof. David Freidenreich
• Ep. 66 – Maimonides on Kiddush and Havdallah with Rabbi Dan Margulies
• Ep. 61 – Medieval Jewish Legal Authorities (Rishonim) on Purim-Drunkenness with Rabbi David Fried

Miscellaneous:

• Ep. 146 – Man Seders with Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Sinensky
• Ep. 141 – Contemporary Beer Trends in Israel with Doug Greener
• Ep. 140 – Contemporary Wine Trends in Israel with Adam Montefiore
• Ep. 134 – Cincinnati Kiddush Club Scotches with Yossi Francus
• Ep. 133 – Yiddish Drinking Terms with Dr. Jordan Finkin
• Ep. 108 – Wine in Israel with Erik Segelbaum
• Ep. 103 – Jewish Addiction Awareness with Marla Kaufman
• Ep. 102 – Jewish Recovery with Rabbi Ilan Glazer
• Rabbi David HaLevi Segal (a/k/a “TaZ”) on Hadash with Rabbi Ezra Goldschmiedt
• Drinking in the Hayyei Adam with Dashiell Ferguson
• Kosher Cocktails Enthusiasts Facebook Group with Dovid Statman
• Cocktails in Mochers Magazine with Yissie Steinhart
• Pandemic-Pivoting in Israel with Joel Haber
• Pandemic Liquor Sales (NJ) with Mendy Mark
• The Jews and Booze Facebook Group with Josh Mann
• Pre-Pandemic Liquor Sales with Mendy Mark
• Maharal of Prague on Jewish & Gentile Wine with Rabbi Michael Bernstein
• Drinking and Drashing: Another Jewish Drinking Podcast with Amanda Weiss and Gabe Snyder
• Yeshiva High School Students Binge-Drinking with Dr. Rivka Press-Schwartz
• Distilleries Selling Their Hametz with Rabbi Chaim Litvin
• The Bourbon Rabbi with Rabbi Chaim Litvin
• Alcoholism in the Jewish Community with Rabbi Andie Cosnowsky
• Honey and Mead with Rabbanit Amalia Haas and Eli Silins
• Tu B’Shevat Cocktails And The Contemporary Cocktail Scene In Israel with Jay Rosen
• A Jewish Biblical Drinking Game? with Rabbi Daniel Epstein
• Introduction

Rabbinic Literature:

• Ep. 135 – Compulsive Libationers Of The Talmud? with Prof. Sacha Stern
• Ep. 113 – Talmudic Parables of Wine with Looks with Dr. Elana Stein Hain
• Ep. 112 – The Term חבורה in Tannaitic (Early Rabbinic) Literature with Dr. Orit Malka
• Ep. 99 – Demons And The Four Cups Of Wine At The Passover Seder [Redux] with Prof. Sara Ronis
• Homa’s Day in Court (Ketubot 65a) with Noam Sachs Zion
• Taverns in the Talmud (בי כובי) with Prof. Laura Lieber
• The Kamtza and Bar Kamtza Episode with Rabbi Noah Ferro
• The Ammonite Wine Midrash with Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein
• Psalm 104:15 in the Babylonian Talmud with Professor AJ Berkovitz
• Gentile Libation Wine (יין נסך) In The Mishnah And Tosefta with Professor Avram Shannon
• Women And The Four Cups Of Wine At The Passover Seder with Miriam Gedwiser
• Why Four Cups in Rabbinic Literature? with Rabbi David Polsky
• Angels and Asparagus: Discussing a Curious Talmudic Beverage with Professor Mika Ahuvia
• Praying Under the Influence (& Providing Halakhic Guidance) with Rabbi David Polsky
• The Rabbinic Drinking House (בית משתה) in the Mishnah and Tosefta with Professor Jordan Rosenblum
• Lot And His Daughters’ Drinking Episode In The Midrash (Bereshit Rabbah) with Rabbi Josh Yuter
• A Significant Rabbinic Discussion on Wine and Drinking: Eruvin 64-65
• Yalta’s Wine-Destroying with Alieza Salzberg Yizhar
• Miriam’s Well with Maharat Ruth Balinsky-Friedman
• What Do a Good Guest & Bad Guest Say with Eli Gurevich
• How Beer Became Acceptable For Havdallah In The Babylonian Talmud with Professor Jordan Rosenblum
• Demons and the Four Cups of Wine at the Passover Seder with Rabbi Alana Suskin
• How Many Cups of Wine to Drink at a Mourner’s House – 10 vs 14? with Rabbi David Fried
• Drinking On Purim In The Talmud with Professor Jordan Rosenblum
• Rava, Mordechai, And Purim-Drinking with Rabbi Ayalon Eliach
• Rav Papa – The Talmud Bavli’s Beer Baron with Professor Jordan Rosenblum
• Wine in the Mishnah with Rabbi Dr. Avraham Walfish
• Beer, Wine, and Bal Tashchit in the Talmud with Professor Tanhum Yoreh

Second Temple Literature:

• Ep. 137 – Drinking in the World to Come in Second Temple Literature? with Prof. Claudia Bergmann
• Wine in the Book of Ben Sira with Professor Michael Satlow
• Wine in the Book of Judith with Professor Caryn Tamber-Rosenau