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Contents
1) Introduction 2) Kosher - Content and Context 3) The Grapes - Varietals 4) The Vineyards, Winemaking 5) Maurie’s Wine List 6) Practical Suggestions Storage Tasting Food Paring 7) Cooking With Wine Recipes 8) Wine and Health 9) Wine Wisdom 10) Appendix Glossary Wine List by Type Maurie’s Top 10 Useful Resources Index Cheers! Salud! Skoal! Kampai! Prosit! Na zdorovia! represent just some of the many toasts and drinking salutations around the world, but we say “L’chaim!”
לחיים! “L’chaim!” - literally, “to life.” We say it as a salutation and an offer of hopeful blessing.
Wine can be a metaphor for a completed and perfected human life. It starts off as a simplistic and immature product (grape juice = childhood), but must go through fermentation (struggle = challenge of evil); and only then does it become the mature product, wine. We use it on occasions where we celebrate a certain milestones in life, like marriage; circumcision; or, at times, like Shabbos, which represents the final product of human life, the Olam-Ha-Ba (World to Come).
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