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While none of the ingredients that make up wine (alcohol, sugars, acidity and phenols) is considered non-kosher, the kashrut laws involving wine are concerned more with who handles the wine and what they use to make it. [2] For wine to be considered kosher, only Sabbath-observant Jews may handle it, from the first time in the process when a ...
128.4–152.8 m A ris is 2 ⁄ 15, or about 0.13, of a mil. According to Rashi (Baba Kama 79b, s.v. שלושים ריס), thirty ris is equivalent to 4 mil. Maimonides concurs in his commentary on Mishnah yoma 6:4, where 90 ris is put at 12 mil. Mil (Milin) מיל mile: 0.598–0.712 mi (in case of Talmud opinion referencing a Roman mile: 0.919 ...
Wine is an integral part of Jewish laws and traditions. The Kiddush is a blessing recited over wine or grape juice to sanctify the Shabbat. On Pesach during the Seder, it is a Rabbinic obligation of adults to drink four cups of wine. [122]
Passover 2024 is here! Here's what you need to know about how to celebrate Pesach from start and end date to what to eat for a Seder meal.
[4] [5] The mouthful was still a unit of liquid measure during Elizabethan times. [6] The principal Egyptian standards from small to large were the ro, hin, hekat , and khar.) [ 7 ] Because of the lack of official definitions, many of these units will not have a consistent value.
1 ⁄ 4 cup 2 59.1471 2 wineglasses = 1 teacup gill‡ or teacup‡ tcf. 1 ⁄ 2 cup 4 118.294 2 teacups = 1 cup cup: C 1 ⁄ 2 pint 8 236.588 2 cups = 1 pint pint: pt. 1 ⁄ 2 qt 16 473.176 2 pints = 1 quart quart: qt. 1 ⁄ 4 gal 32 946.353 2 quarts = 1 pottle‡ gallon: gal. 231 in 3: 128 3,785.41 4 quarts = 1 gal
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The practice of a cup of blessing is mentioned in the Talmud, and technically it can be done anytime Birkat Hamazon is recited, even by an individual. [33] However, common practice is to use a cup only when there is a zimmun , in which case the person leading the zimmun recites the blessings over the cup of wine called the kos shel beracha (cup ...