[Avodah] Havdalah During the Nine Days

[Micha Berger]

My annual question is whether the better choice were beer or grape juice.

Which reflects two very different ways of how to extrapolate beyond
halachic "must / may not" to aggadic "ought" of lifnim mishuras hadin. Do
we measure it in aggadic terms, and since beer gives an alcoholic "buzz"
like wine, it's the more similar? Or do we treat it as an exension of
halakhah, making grape juice a kind of wine by rigid legal reasoning.

-Micha

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