Making wine in the world to come
Edition 27: Wine
The editor


Three hundred clusters and a barrel of wine
Wine production from Second Temple to medieval times
Salo Baron


Grain, oil and wine
The altar and the table of man
Nogah Hareuveni

Kiddush: Sanctifying the day over a cup of wine
An evolving tradition
Ismar Elbogen


"I drank and I was exhilarated": A first-hand medieval account of Friday evening Jewish drinking customs in 15th-century Alexandria
Ovadiah of Bertinoro

Satan and Noah planted a vineyard
The origin of viticulture according to the midrash

Kichlot yeni: When my wine is finished
A medieval poem and a historical recording of it set to a folk melody of unknown origin
Solomon Ibn Gabirol


Two sides of the flagon
Rabbinic attitudes towards wine drinking


Seventy is seventy is seventy
A cautionary Talmudic tale told in numbers


Italian wine in early rabbinic times
Luxury import or liquid measure
Gedalia Alon



Chlavne, who always loved a drink
A wine story by the greatest story teller
Sholom Aleichem

White, red, burnt, live, old, sweet, dry, sour
A Hebrew lesson: Wine (yayin)

Four cups of wine or five at the Passover seder?
(When Elijah comes, we will know the answer...)
Shoshana Michael Zucker