It's brought down in the ספרים הקדושים that there is a big ענין for every Jewish male to drink two bottles of wine to bring in מר חשון . The מצוה מן המובחר is to drink wine but one can fulfill this by drinking two bottles of grape juice too. The ספרים say that this is to be performed on שבת מברחים, but due to יו''ט and the fact that ר''ח falls out on שבת it gets pushed off to this coming שבת. This is to be treated like the מצוה of ארבע מינים, and one should try to do the הידור מצוה and spend what he feels is necessary to fulfill this great ענין. May this ר''ח we merit the coming of the גאולה שלמה.
I think there is a "hagah" that says if you cant drink, you should at least spend the same amount of money as you would on wine on something like giving tzedaka.
ReplyDeletewhere is it going donw?
ReplyDeletethe is a midrash in tanchuma that states that at one tbowmc seuda one tanna was drunk and did avoda zara to a type of alcohol, the tanna after sobering up and realizing what he had done, concluded he could no longer do tbowmc with the chevra, not to say that he didnt do tbowmc but he just couldnt do it with that chevra anymore
ReplyDelete@Anon10:07 - Wherever you make it happen...
ReplyDeleteobviously jews in all different places in the world will be celebrating but where is the chevra going to be?
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