Jewish Question for the Braintrust -- 9 Days

[gnomi]

Can one drink wine during the Nine Days?

(not being a wine drinker, I never bothered to find out. But I was asked, so I'm asking.)

Comments

[zsero.livejournal.com]

No, because the thing being mourned (the Temple) hasn't been restored yet. So there's a Good Friday/Holy Saturday, but we've been waiting 1935 years for an Easter Sunday. Maybe this year, though so far it looks like things are about to get worse, not better, with the expulsion of the Jews from the Gaza strip set to happen on the morning of the 10th of Av, right when the Temple was burning, back in 70 CE.