A man used to drink two small
glasses of schnapps every day. He would
say, “One I drink for me and another I have for a friend that died.” He set into the practice of having two drunks
in front of him at lunch, seven days each week.
One day, returning from a doctor’s
visit, he ordered only one glass.
“Why? What happened that you are only ordering one?”
He answered, “the doctor told
me to give up drinking. So now I just
have one for my old friend.”
Drinking in Judaism is a sacred act, one which requires a blessing. We must not succumb to the vice of abuse.
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