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Oneg Shabbat : Drinking Fine Wine. How is drinking fine wine on Shabbat different from Drinking wine on any other day, such that it is an Experience specifically of Shabbat pleasure? . Maybe it has to do with the. “Shabbat, His holiness . . . a memorial of the Creation and
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Oneg Shabbat:Drinking Fine Wine How is drinking fine wine on Shabbat different from Drinking wine on any other day, such that it is an Experience specifically of Shabbat pleasure?
Maybe it has to do with the “Shabbat, His holiness . . . a memorial of the Creation and a remembrance of the Exodus”
When I drink wine on Shabbat The World is created anew!
When I drink wine on Shabbat I go out of Egypt all over again!
Let’s Sing a Wine Song! A Poem by Ibn Gavirol http://www.jhom.com/topics/topics/wine/song.htm When my wine is finished, my eyes drip Pools of water.
“Kichlot Eini – When my Wine is Finished” When my wine is finished, my eyes drip Pools of water. Seventy heroes they were,Wiped out by ninety officersI have left off singing, for the mouths of Officers were filled with water. When my wine is finished, my eyes drip Pools of water. Seventy heroes they were,Wiped out by ninety officersI have left off singing, for the mouths of Officers were filled with water. When my wine is finished, my eyes drip Pools of water. Seventy heroes they were,Wiped out by ninety officersI have left off singing, for the mouths of myOfficers were filled with water. Bread to eat — how pleasant it is!But how can a meal taste good to the palateWhen the wineglass Is filled with water. The Son of Amram (Moses) dried the Red SeaAnd made the Egyptian Nile stink.Who was this man Moses whoDrew water (from the rock). I'm a friend to the frogs He likes water, No-one knows the song of waterBetter than he. He'll be a holy hermit before his deathLike Yithro's descendents He and his household will becomeDrawers of water.