Rav Nachman and the Revi’is of Wine
Rav Nachman praises one of Shmuel’s teachings and dismisses another about wine, and Rava rebukes him: one may not call some Torah nice and some not.
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Rav Nachman praises one of Shmuel’s teachings and dismisses another about wine, and Rava rebukes him: one may not call some Torah nice and some not.
Shmuel tastes wine in the dates his sharecropper brings, learns the palms are sapping his grapevines, and orders the date palms cut down.
Avleit, a gentile scholar, avoids touching Shmuel's wine so it won't be forbidden, but Shmuel tells him not to worry: the wine is cooked, mevushal.
Avleit, a gentile scholar, is careful not to touch the bottle so that Shmuel can drink, but Shmuel tells him it makes no difference: the wine is cooked.