 | The entire Havdalah ceremony in detail.
Is it a minhag to let the wine spill over the top?If so, what's the basis / source for this?
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It is customary to fill the havdalah cup until it overflows its rim. This is symbolic of the overflowing cup of blessings we wish for in the upcoming week.
-- Taken from Havdalah Information
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"Traditionally, women don't drink of the leftover wine in the havdalah cup."
i did not know this... why not?
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Rabbi Isaiah Horowitz (known as the Shalah) explains that according to many, the Tree of Knowledge was actually a grape vine. Since Eve’s squeezing of those grapes for Adam to partake caused separation (of good and evil) in the world, women do not drink the grape-wine of separation (Havdalah).
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What should a woman on her own do then about making Havdalah - drink the wine or not?
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A woman making havdalah should certainly drink the wine or grape juice.
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A woman I knew would make havdallah on orange juice. Is there an issue with orange juice as there might be with wine for women? And does she recite havdallah with candle and fragrant spices as well? I follow Chabad customs, but this I have confusion on.
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I know it's the Jewish was to have a multitude of opnions, but....as these two are so opposed to each other, could Naftali Silberberg and Menachem Posner please put your heads together and give me one answer about women and drinking the Havdalah wine? (see below)
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While there is the age-old custom of women not partaking in the havdalah wine, in the event that she makes havdalah for herself, she most certainly should drink it (Mishnah Berurah 296:35).
In addition, she can/should recite the blessing over the spices. Concerning the blessing on the candles, the Mishnah Berurah (ibid) rules that she need not say it. However, common practice is that she does recite this blessing as well (Ketzot Hashulchan vol. 3. chapter 96 footnote 12).
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