[Avodah] Selling bourbon before pesach

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Micha:
> Beer is so similar to bread, that Scientific American once carried an
> article theorizing that bread originated as a failed attempt to make
> beer; perhaps during a water shortage. Something crudely like beer can
> occur naturally, when grain gets wet and the mixture ages enough to get
> the local animals tipsy. So, the theory suggested that beer was refined
> off that discovery, and bread an accident off that side-line.

My daughter reported at a seder several years ago that
1. Hametz Bread
2. Beer
3. honey on bread

Were all Egyptian delicacies

And that Semites naturally consumned matzah [think of Lot!]

If "K'maaseh Eretz Mitzrayim" was indeed so appaling to the Torah -
then it is no wonder that these items were prohibited during Passover
AND in the process of Qorban Minchah [last Shabbos's laining!]

Now there is a spiritual dimension to hametz, too. But it is also easy
to see the beer-bread connection in Mitzrayim and why The Torah had to
wean us off an Egyptian "timtum" ;-)

ZP
RRW

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