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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”:
The Rabbinic Drinking House (בית משתה) in the Mishnah and Tosefta
What is the Rabbinic drinking house? Joining the 55th episode of The Jewish Drinking Show is Professor Jordan Rosenblum to discuss the phrase בית משתה in the Mishnah and the Tosefta with host Rabbi Drew Kaplan. Professor Rosenblum is the Belzer Professor of Classical Judaism, the Max and Frieda Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Jewish Studies at […]
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Rabban Gamliel’s Sons Return Home From Drinking (Mishnah Berakhot 1:1) [Video]
In advance of tomorrow’s forthcoming episode on the Rabbinic Drinking House, featuring Professor Jordan Rosenblum, here is a clip from the episode on the topic of Rabban Gamaliel’s sons returning home past midnight, having been out at a drinking house (Mishnah Berakhot 1:1):
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Wine in Mishnah Berakhot: An Introduction [DRAFT]
Introduction Wine’s appearances in Tractate Berakhot in the Mishnah all appear in chapters 6-8, the chapters that deal with consumptive activities.[1] Out of the tractates of the Mishnah, Tractate Berakhot features the fifth-most appearances of wine,[2] seemingly due to that “the tractates in which wine appears most frequently is because these are tractates that focus […]
Lot and His Daughters’ Drinking Episode in the Midrash (Bereshit Rabbah)
For the 49th episode of the JewishDrinking.com podcast/video series, Rabbi Josh Yuter join the show in discussing midrashim on the drunken incident involving Lot and his daughters in Genesis chapter 19 with show host Rabbi Drew Kaplan. Rabbi Yuter recently returned to podcasting, having relaunched his new podcast What’s the Point of the Midrash?, exploring […]
A Significant Rabbinic Discussion on Wine & Drinking: Eruvin 64-65
One of the lengthier discussions on wine and drinking in rabbinic literature occurs in the Babylonian Talmud on Eruvin 64-65, which happens to also be the pages of the current Daf Yomi cycle for today and tomorrow. Enjoy this introductory overview of the drinking texts on pages Eruvin 64a, Eruvin 64b, Eruvin 65a, and Eruvin […]
Yalta’s Wine-Destroying
On the newest release amongst the podcast/video episodes, Alieza Salzberg Yizhar joins the show to discuss a particular incident in the Talmud where Yalta destroys 400 jugs of wine (see below for text from the Babylonian Talmud on this incident). She teaches Talmud at the Conservative Yeshiva and courses in Jewish History and Literature at […]
What Do a Good Guest & Bad Guest Say?
The newest amongst the JewishDrinking.com podcast/video episodes concerns what do a good guest and a bad guest say, as found in early rabbinic literature, especially as it relates to wine🍷 The guest for this episode, Eli Gurevich, is the creator of Tosefta Online, a fantastic resource for the study of the Tosefta, as well as […]
How Beer Became Acceptable for Havdallah in the Babylonian Talmud
You can only use wine for Havdallah, right? That’s what the Talmudic rabbis thought…until a certain story happened. And then beer became legitimate to use for this ritual. Featuring Professor Jordan Rosenblum, the Belzer Professor of Classical Judaism, the Max and Frieda Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Chair of […]
Demons and the Four Cups of Wine at the Passover Seder
The 25th episode of the podcast/video series is now out! Featuring Rabbi Alana Suskin, the co-founder and co-director of the Pomegranate Initiative, as well as a senior editor at JewSchool.com, we discuss the susceptibility to demons of the four cups of wine at the Passover Seder, according to the discussion of the rabbis in the […]