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Can we drink alcohol, wine or beer?

-From many people

                            Actually, you can drink any alcoholic beverage just as long it is kosher, and 100%

                            organic, (meaning without chemicals, pesticides or herbicides, etc). Also, when the wine was                                    processed, (where it is either bottled or canned), the vats, machines, production lines, and 

                            brewing canisters, etc. must not have been rinsed with chlorinated water / tap water, even if     

                            the water has been filtered. This is only referring to where the drink itself is touching something, prior to being placed in the bottle or can; this also includes the container it comes in.

    Wine does not have to be made by us Jews, as the "Orthodox" folks teach, in order for it to be 'kosher.'  It can be made by non-Jews.

    Here are some rules regarding alcohol, besides what I just mentioned. One is that you cannot be a drunkard. Meaning, you cannot be someone who is constantly, or often in that state. This is not the same as being tipsy or buzzed. Here are those rules:

1. If you are a priest or Levite, you must not enter the sanctuary after drinking alcohol.

2. A Nazerite must never drink alcohol.

3. If a non-priest or non-Levite wants to offer an offering or sacrifice he must be like the priest, he must not enter the

   sanctuary after drinking alcohol.

4. You must not drink alcohol during Passover, even though Jewish people have been doing such for a few hundred

   years, but this was not so prior to that, which is correct.

5. You must not drink alcohol, nor any drink or food for that matter, if it has been offered to foreign gods or other gods.

One of the main reasons for the command of "You must not be a drunkard" is not just that you are self-indulgent and self-absorbed, but mostly because when you are in that state you have a higher chance of losing control, and so might not love your neighbor as yourself, as you should, and must do at all times.

Keep in mind that Yoshua supplied greater wine or intoxicating drink at the wedding in Cana, because - if you recall -  the manager to the wedding ceremony was shocked that that best wine was served last and not first [John 2:9-10].

Later on I will give more examples that righteous people drank alcohol and that intoxicating drink offerings were offered daily at the Temple.

Maregaal