[Avodah] Kos Shel Bracha

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 11:42:34PM -0400, Moshe Y. Gluck wrote:
: R' Akiva Miller:
:> Someone was sitting with his family at their Shabbos seudah, 
:> remembered to do this mitzvah d'Oraisa of praising Shabbos with 
:> words, and raised his cup (perhaps of wine, perhaps of schnapps, 
:> perhaps of beer, probably not of water), and declared "Baruch Hashem 
:> for giving us the holy Shabbos!", or something like that...

: I once heard a Rav say, "It means a lot more when you say it with a cup of
: wine!"

I would think that the story with Noach proves that the notion of
praising Hashem over a cup of wine (or perhaps celebrating in general)
is something innate in the human condition.

Tir'u baTov!
-mi