[Avodah] When may Yidden drink???

SBA areivim at sba2.com
Sun Apr 29 07:55:22 PDT 2007


>> Nice vort from the Rebbe Reb Hershel Zidichoyver zt'l that I heard 
>> tonight
>> at a Shiur.
>> In Parshas Shemini (10:9) "Yayin vesheichor al tesht..." - one should not
>> drink wine,    except for ->>
>> "Ato uvonecho itoch" - when you sit at the seder with your children,
>> ''bevoyachem el Ohel Moyed" - when you come together at the Rebbe's,
>> "velo somusu" - at a Seudas Hodo'eh,
>> "Chukas Oylom" - at a Bris (ie, Veyamideho leYaakov lechok leYisroel Bris 
>> Olom),     >> "Ledoroyseichem" - at weddings.
>> "Ulehavdil bein hakodesh uvein hachol" - refers to Kiddush and Havdolo,
>> "Uvein hatomei uvein hatohor" - on Purim (Haman and Mordechai),
>> "Ulehoros es Bnei Yisroel eis kol hachukim asher dibeir Hashem" - at a 
>> Siyum Mesechteh.

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From: "Rabbi Chaim Ingram" <judaim at bigpond.net.au>
> The Rebbe undoubtedly meant it as a derush.
> In another context, the Debreciner Rav, writes: "...There is no rabbi 
> whoever he may be who can undertake on his own to issue new decrees 
> unilaterally"
> No halacha exists that restricts the consumption of wine to the occasions 
> cited below.

Of course. In fact drinking wine lesimchas YT is lechoreh missing (unless
we add it to "Ato uvonecho itoch" or "Ulehavdil bein hakodesh uvein hachol"

SBA 




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