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 Texts on Drunkenness (3rd century)
39:37 Conclusion
42:12 Thank you & l'chaim

“Drinks and Discussion”-style Episodes
This episode is the eleventh "Drinks and Discussion"-style episode of The Jewish Drinking Show on various topics led by Rabbi Drew:

• Drunkenness in the Babylonian Talmud, Part 1 - Episode #165 (This episode)
• Drunkenness in the Talmud Yerushalmi - Episode #164
• Drunkenness in Early Rabbinic Literature - Episode #163
• Dukhening Under the Influence - Episode #161
• Drinking Between Glasses of Wine at the Passover Seder - Episode #154
• The Purim Katan Episode – Episode #151
• Drinking During Mourning – Episode #150
• Drinking In/Out of Sukkot – Episode #142
• A Significant Rabbinic Discussion on Wine & Drinking: Eruvin 64-65 – Episode #47
• Drinking During the Ten Days of Repentance: An Introduction – Episode #44
• Drinking During the Nine Days – Episode #40

Support the show

Thank you for listening!

If you have any questions, suggestions, or more, feel free to reach out at [email protected]

l'chaim!

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 Show on various topics led by Rabbi Drew:

• Drunkenness in the Talmud Yerushalmi - Episode #164 (This episode)
• Drunkenness in Early Rabbinic Literature - Episode #163
• Dukhening Under the Influence - Episode #161
• Drinking Between Glasses of Wine at the Passover Seder - Episode #154
• The Purim Katan Episode – Episode #151
• Drinking During Mourning – Episode #150
• Drinking In/Out of Sukkot – Episode #142
• A Significant Rabbinic Discussion on Wine & Drinking: Eruvin 64-65 – Episode #47
• Drinking During the Ten Days of Repentance: An Introduction – Episode #44
• Drinking During the Nine Days – Episode #40

Support the show

Thank you for listening!

If you have any questions, suggestions, or more, feel free to reach out at [email protected]

l'chaim!

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 Introduction
0:48 Drunkenness in the Mishnah
13:00 Drunkenness in the Tosefta
26:37 Drunkenness in Midreshei Halakhah
37:08 Conclusion
38:44 l'chaim

“Drinks and Discussion”-style Episodes
This episode is the ninth "Drinks and Discussion"-style episode of The Jewish Drinking Show on various topics led by Rabbi Drew:

• Drunkenness in Early Rabbinic Literature - Episode #163 (This episode)
• Dukhening Under the Influence - Episode #161
• Drinking Between Glasses of Wine at the Passover Seder - Episode #154
• The Purim Katan Episode – Episode #151
• Drinking During Mourning – Episode #150
• Drinking In/Out of Sukkot – Episode #142
• A Significant Rabbinic Discussion on Wine & Drinking: Eruvin 64-65 – Episode #47
• Drinking During the Ten Days of Repentance: An Introduction – Episode #44
• Drinking During the Nine Days – Episode #40

Support the show

Thank you for listening!

If you have any questions, suggestions, or more, feel free to reach out at [email protected]

l'chaim!

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 the Hebrew Bible (Brill, 2020), focuses on the use of food and drink in ancient Israelite religion and is a revision of her doctoral thesis. She has also published on the wine-making metaphor in Isaiah 49:26a and 63:6 in the Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies. Rebekah teaches a class on God, Food and Alcohol in Israelite Cultures for undergraduate students and continues to enjoy teaching and researching on food and alcohol in the Hebrew Bible and ancient Israel. She previously appeared on the 149th episode of The Jewish Drinking Show on the rebellious son.

Sources
Here are the sources used for this episode.

Time Stamps
Here are the time stamps for this episode:
0:00 Welcome
0:15 Introduction to guest & topic
5:58 Drunkenness in Genesis 9 & 19
17:36 Drunkenness in Genesis 43
20:32 Drunkenness in Deuteronomy
22:38 Drunkenness in Shmuel
27:04 Sneak peak at the next episode of The Jewish Drinking Show
27:56 Drunkenness in Jeremiah
33:15 Drunkenness in Isaiah
39:32 Drunkenness in other prophetic works
42:47 Drunkenness in the writings
47:47 Concluding
48:57 Dr. Welton shares about her recent chapter on "Wine, Beer, and Drunkenness in the Hebrew Bible, Ancient Israel, and Biblical Scholarship" in Holy Waters: An Interdisciplinary Examination of Religion and Alcohol
50:09 Thank you & l'chaim

Support the show

Thank you for listening!

If you have any questions, suggestions, or more, feel free to reach out at [email protected]

l'chaim!

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
This episode is the eighth "Drinks and Discussion"-style episode of The Jewish Drinking Show on various topics led by Rabbi Drew:

• Dukhening Under the Influence - Episode #161 (this episode)
• Drinking Between Glasses of Wine at the Passover Seder - Episode #154
• The Purim Katan Episode – Episode #151
• Drinking During Mourning – Episode #150
• Drinking In/Out of Sukkot – Episode #142
• A Significant Rabbinic Discussion on Wine & Drinking: Eruvin 64-65 – Episode #47
• Drinking During the Ten Days of Repentance: An Introduction – Episode #44
• Drinking During the Nine Days – Episode #40

Support the show

Thank you for listening!

If you have any questions, suggestions, or more, feel free to reach out at [email protected]

l'chaim!

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 Islamic world. He holds a BA (with distinction in economics) from the University of Washington, a MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics, a MA in Talmud and Rabbinic Ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary, a MA and PhD in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University, and Semikha from Yeshivat Chovevei Torah.

He is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Law, Associate Professor and Chair of Classical and Mediterranean Studies, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, and Affiliated Associate Professor of Islamic Studies and History, at Vanderbilt University. Phil is currently on military leave and serves as Associate Professor in the Department of History at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.  Phil also serves the US Navy Reserve as a chaplain and was mobilized to Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, where he served as Command Chaplain. He was promoted to the rank of Captain in August 2023 and is the ranking Jewish chaplain in the Department of the Navy.

His 2014 book, The Business of Identity: Jews, Muslims, and Economic Life in Medieval Egypt (Stanford University Press) was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. His latest book is The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Middle East (2022).  In the first half of 2024, his translation with Lenn Goodman (also of Vanderbilt) of Maimonides’ 12th century philosophical classic The Guide to the Perplexed was published by Stanford University Press.

Phil lives with his wife, the amazing Dr. Yedida Eisenstat, his four children, and a wild Portuguese Water Dog named Argos in Nashville.

Support the show

Thank you for listening!

If you have any questions, suggestions, or more, feel free to reach out at [email protected]

l'chaim!

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 by Rabbi Pinchas Teitz, Rav Moshe responds to him regarding the kashrut (kosher-ness) of blended whiskies that might have some wine in them. Primarily responding to his queries in one responsum, he also answers follow-up questions by Rabbi Teitz. In the 159th episode of The Jewish Drinking Show, Rabbi Dov Linzer guides us through the salient points of this trilogy (Iggeros Moshe, YD 62-64), primarily focussing on this first responsum (Iggeros Moshe YD 62).

Biography of Guest
Rabbi Linzer is the President and Rosh HaYeshiva of YCT Rabbinical School. Having served as YCT’s Rosh HaYeshiva for over 20 years, Rabbi Linzer became its President in 2019 and assumed both the institutional and Torah-based leadership of YCT. In his capacity as a mentor, Rabbi Linzer provides religious guidance to the yeshiva’s students and the over 150 YCT-ordained rabbis who are serving in the field. An acclaimed Torah and halakha scholar, Rabbi Linzer has been a leading rabbinic voice in the Modern Orthodox community for over 25 years. 

He has published over 100 teshuvot (responsa) and scholarly Torah articles, and hosts a number of highly popular Torah podcasts, including Iggros Moshe: A to Z, the 42nd episode of which he discussed our episode's topic - blended whiskey in Rabbi Moshe Feinstein's teshuvot.  He is co-author, together with Abigail Pogrebin, of It Takes Two To Torah: An Orthodox Rabbi and Reform Journalist Discuss and Debate Their Way Through the Five Books of Moses and will soon be coming out with The Rosh Yeshiva Responds, a collection of his scholarly, halakhic teshuvot to the yeshiva’s hundreds of rabbis in-the-field.

Support the show

Thank you for listening!

If you have any questions, suggestions, or more, feel free to reach out at [email protected]

l'chaim!

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.)

Bio of Guest
Rabbi Dr. Zvi Ron received semikha from the Israeli Chief Rabbinate and a PhD in Jewish Theology from Spertus University. He served as rabbi of Keneseth Beth Israel Synagogue for ten years in Richmond, Virginia. Along with his wife, Sharon, they moved back to Israel in 2004 with their four children and live in Neve Daniel, Gush Etzion. He teaches at a number of yeshivot and seminaries in Jerusalem. He is the author of two books on Tanakh in Hebrew: ספר קטן וגדול (Rossi Publications, 2006) and ספר העיקר חסר (Mossad HaRav Kook, 2017) about the variable spellings of words in Tanakh. Rabbi Ron also has authored dozens of articles in numerous publications. His newest book, Jewish Customs: Exploring Common and Uncommon Minhagim, was just published this year (Koren, 2024).  He is editor of the Jewish Bible Quarterly and was a contestant on The Weakest Link (you can see parts two and three of his appearance (part one was removed for copyright reasons)).

Support the show

Thank you for listening!

If you have any questions, suggestions, or more, feel free to reach out at [email protected]

l'chaim!

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 [email protected]

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 [email protected]

l'chaim!