The Jewish Drinking Show

Introduction Ever wondered how our Talmudic rabbis discussed or otherwise considered drunkenness? The 165th episode of The Jewish Drinking Show considers drunkenness in earlier sources in the Babylonian Talmud. Source Sheet The source sheet for this episode is available here . Time Stamps 0:00 Welcome 0:12 Introduction 0:50 Tannaitic Texts on Drunkenness (1st-2nd centuries) 9:40 Early Amoraic Text...

Introduction Ever wondered how our Talmudic rabbis discussed or otherwise considered drunkenness? The 164th episode of The Jewish Drinking Show considers drunkenness in the Talmud Yerushalmi . Source Sheet The source sheet for this episode is available here .  “Drinks and Discussion”-style Episodes This episode is the tenth "Drinks and Discussion"-style episode of The Jewish Drinking Sho...

Introduction Ever wondered how our early rabbis discussed or otherwise considered drunkenness? The 163rd episode of The Jewish Drinking Show considers drunkenness in the Mishnah , the Tosefta , and Midreshei Halakhah . Source Sheets Source sheets for this episode are available: Drunkenness in the Mishnah Drunkenness in the Tosefta Drunkenness in Midreshei Halakhah Time Stamps 0:00 Welcome 0:12 Int...

Introduction Ever wondered about what the Bible has to say about drunkenness? That's exactly what host Rabbi Drew chats about with guest Dr. Rebekah Welton on the 162nd episode of The Jewish Drinking Show . Brief Biography of the Guest Dr. Rebekah Welton is a lecturer in Hebrew Bible at the University of Exeter in the UK. Her monograph, He is a Glutton and a Drunkard: Deviant Consumption in t...

Introduction With this season featuring the majority of providing of the priestly blessing amongst many diasporic Ashkenazic communities, the 161st episode of The Jewish Drinking Show focusses on providing this blessing under the influence of alcohol - what are the parameters for doing so? Sources Textual sources for this episode are available online here . “Drinks and Discussion”-style Episodes T...

Introduction Having previously welcomed Rabbi Dr. Phil Lieberman to The Jewish Drinking Show  for the geonic terms for alcoholic beverages , we welcome him back for the 160th episode of the show to discuss wine, drinking, and drunkenness in Maimonides ' Guide for the Perplexed . Biography of Guest Rabbi Dr. Lieberman is a social, economic, and legal historian of the Jews of the medieval Islam...

Introduction One text that gets mentioned in conversations I have with fellow whiskey-drinkers is the responsum or responsa of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein . Commonly referred to as Rav Moshe, he was an important 20th century rabbi with a significant impact on the practices of Orthodox Jews, in general, and American Orthodox Jews, in particular. In a trilogy of three responsa, with questions posed to him...

Introduction The newest episode of The Jewish Drinking Show explores a common Jewish drinking expression - l'chaim/l'ḥayyim ! Based off of his article “ L-Ḥayyim ”, Ḥakirah  31 (2022): 345-355 , Rabbi Dr. Zvi Ron returns to the show (having previously appeared on the show to discuss spilling out drops of wine at the Passover Seder ) to discuss saying לחיים! (Sources are available here .)...

In the 157th episode of The Jewish Drinking Show , we visit Amichai Luria, the winemaker for Shiloh Winery to hear about the winery🍷 Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any questions, suggestions, or more, feel free to reach out at Drew@JewishDrinking.com l'chaim!

The 156th episode of The Jewish Drinking Show features Nadav Jesselson, co-founder and general manager of Anava Vineyards , speaks on Israel's first "vineyard as a service".  Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any questions, suggestions, or more, feel free to reach out at Drew@JewishDrinking.com l'chaim!

Intro Having heard about Rosh Chodesh Clubs , I was curious to learn more about them, as well as to speak with the creator of this initiative, Yossie Horwitz, who is the guest on the 155th episode of The Jewish Drinking Show . Biography of Guest Growing up in a tee-totaling household in Jerusalem, Yossie Horwitz didn’t have much early exposure to wine. That all changed one Passover night when he t...

While we know about drinking four cups of wine at the Passover Seder, what about drinking between these four cups of wine? The newest episode of The Jewish Drinking Show focusses on exactly this topic. This episode is also the seventh "Drinks and Discussion"-style episode, featuring a texts-based discussion led by Rabbi Drew . Sources The sources for this episode are available here . “Dr...

Introduction Having previously published an episode on the origin of dropping out wine during the Passover Seder a few years ago , the newest episode of The Jewish Drinking Show explores a relatively recent explanation of this practice which sharply departs from its medieval explanations. Based off of his article "Spilling Wine While Reciting the Plagues to Diminish Our Joy?", TheTorah.c...

Intro Having discussed rabbis’ normative writings previously on The Jewish Drinking Show throughout numerous centuries, I’m excited to welcome back Rabbi David Fried to discuss significant rabbinic normative writings in the 18th-19th centuries on this matter. If you're curious to check out previous episodes featuring Rabbi Fried on Purim-drinking, they are available here: Medieval Jewish Lega...

 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. This episode is also the sixth "Drinks and Discussion"-style episode, featuring a texts-based discussion led...

Introduction While not typically considered, drinking is something that can happen during mourning in Judaism. There is a prohibition against drinking between death of a loved one and their burial, called aninut , there is an interesting debate concerning drinking during shivah , around which the 150th episode of The Jewish Drinking Show centers. In this fifth “Drinks and Discussion”-style episode...

Introduction The legislation in the Torah concerning a wayward and rebellious son (בן סורר ומורה) is an interesting, enigmatic, and curious passage relating to raising children (Deuteronomy 21:18-21). It also happens to be an interesting Jewish drinking text to explore. Fortunately, the 149th episode of The Jewish Drinking Show features a guest who has written on this topic. Brief Biography of the...

Introduction Having come across some interesting products that were kosher-certified that I would not have expected to be as such, I was fascinated to find out more about Boone County Distilling . The two products that stood out to me were their bourbon creme, as well as their bourbon aged in Dalton Winery casks from Israel. Fortunately, owing to my proximity to Bourbon country, I visited Boone Co...

Introduction What is it like creating a kosher wine-importing and distributing business? While the 147th episode of The Jewish Drinking Show begins with a discussion of these question, this episode featuring Ami & Larissa Nahari, founders & owners of The River Wine , turns into an exploration of their products that are the first in the market to be kosher-certified. Biographies of Guests C...

Introduction Man Seders have previously received coverage in such publications as The Forward ( "Is the ‘Man Seder’ Wrong?" ) and The Wall Street Journal ( "‘Man Seders’ Flow With Steak and Scotch" ), which feature meat and whiskey. Based off of his essay on The Man’s Seder , the 146th episode of The Jewish Drinking Show features Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Sinensky to discuss this phenomen...

Throughout Jerusalem’s multi-millenial history, there had never been a distillery…until a few years ago. As part of The Jewish Drinking Show ‘s Toast to Israel at 75 mini-series , co-founder and co-CEO of Thinkers Distillery , Bennett Kaplan, joins the show to speak about this historic distillery. Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any questions, suggestions, or more, feel free...

 Continuing on in our Toast to Israel at 75 mini-series , this episode features Shmuel Naky and Ephraim Greenblatt, brewer and owner, respectively, of Hatch Brewing in Jerusalem. In some respects, it follows from the previous episode of the show, focussing on creating a brewery in Jerusalem .  Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any questions, suggestions, or more, feel free to r...

Continuing on in our Toast to Israel at 75 mini-series , this episode features Ephraim Greenblatt and Shmuel Naky, owner and brewery, respectively, of Hatch Brewing in Jerusalem. Support the show Thank you for listening! If you have any questions, suggestions, or more, feel free to reach out at Drew@JewishDrinking.com l'chaim!

Intro With the holiday of Sukkot only days away, a question that arises is which drinking is one allowed to do outside of the sukkah and how much does one need to drink within a sukkah? In this fourth “Drinks and Discussion”-style episode, Rabbi Drew Kaplan leads a text-based discussion on the topic. Previous "Drinks and Discussion" episodes (episodes 40 , 44 , & 47 ) were previously...

Introduction Having previously sat down with The Jerusalem Post 's wine writer to discuss contemporary trends in wine in Israel , the newest episode of The Jewish Drinking Show features The Jerusalem Post 's beer writer. As part of the Toast to Israel at 75 mini-series , Doug Greener and Rabbi Drew Kaplan get together over beers in the Maḥaneh Yehudah Market in Jerusalem to discuss conte...