Can you make Kiddush on grapes?

Can you make Kiddush on grapes?

If one cannot drink wine, one may recite Kiddush on grape juice. One must be careful to purchase only wine and grape juice that have a reliable kosher certification. The cup must hold at least a revi’is (3.8 fl. One may also use a glass or any other non-disposable cup.

What kind of wine goes with Kiddush?

The Mishnah Berurah (272:10) writes that lechatchila (ideally) it is best to use red wine for Kiddush, but if red wine is not available, or if the white wine is better quality, then one may use white wine.

Can you use grape juice instead of wine for Passover?

Normative Halacha adopts this position, even as many continued to assert that regular wine remains preferable (Magen Avraham 272:3). Although this pronouncement led one Orthodox polemicist to attempt to invalidate grape juice, the drink became universally accepted for Kiddush wine (Har Tzvi OC 1:158).

What can you make Kiddush over?

It is common for people to make kiddush over whisky or other spirits on Shabbat morning whether at home or in shul. Ideally, we should make kiddush on wine. On Friday night you cannot use drinks other than wine or grape juice; if you don’t have either, you should make kiddush on bread.

How many Kiddush cups do I need?

Kiddush Cups – Each guest should have their own Kiddush cup for the four cups of wine. The four cups of wine primarily represent the four expressions of redemption. Candles – The blessing over the festival candles is recited with a special blessing for Passover.

Can you use apple juice for Shabbat?

Rav Chaim Pinchus Scheinberg (Radiance of Shabbos, page 74) ruled that soda, orange and apple juice and milk are chamar medinah and may be used for Kiddush and Havdalah. (Presumably, milk is intoxicating in the sense that it causes drowsiness and affects a person’s mental state.)

How long does kiddush wine last?

Most wines can last up to 3 to 4 days after being opened, as long as you put the cork back in the bottle and refrigerate it or store it in a cool place. If the wine stays open too long, the flavor and texture of the wine will go flat.

Why is grape juice not kosher?

Since reconstituted grape juice is a beverage which is one part hagafen and four parts shehakol (water) and the water isn’t given the status of wine, the bracha on the beverage is shehakol and it would be unsuitable for kiddush.

Why is Manischewitz wine not for Passover?

Note: Standard Manischewitz isn’t kosher for Passover for many Jews because it contains corn sugar, but Manischewitz makes a special kosher-for-Passover bottling with cane sugar as well.

Can you make Kiddush on apple juice?

Can a woman say Kiddush?

According to Rav Acha, Kiddush Levana is a short bracha (similar to other Birchos Ha’reiya recited on seeing the wonders of creation). Rav Ashi responded that a short bracha even women can say. However, since it is a long bracha, this indicates that it is indeed a prayer, and as such women are exempt.

How much wine goes in a seder?

A. “According to Jewish practice, you’re supposed to drink four cups of wine,” says Rudin.

Does Kiddush apply to grape juice?

This rule (which applies to all wine consumption, not just Kiddush) extends to grape juice as well, but does not apply if the wine (or grape juice) was cooked (“mevushal”), since cooking renders wine unfit for libation. A wine that was handled by a non-Jew while the bottle was sealed is kosher even if it is not mevushal.

Why is Kiddush recited over wine?

This verse is a Torah command to sanctify the Shabbat when it enters (Kiddush) and when it departs (Havdalah). The Sages instituted that this sanctification be accompanied by a cup of wine (or grape juice). They also instituted that Kiddush be recited over wine before beginning the daytime Shabbat meal.

What is the Kiddush (Kiddush)?

Kiddush, which means holiness, is the prayer over wine (or grape juice) that sanctifies Shabbat. On Friday night, the Kiddush is recited over a full cup of wine or grape juice before sitting down for Shabbat dinner and before saying the Motzi, the blessing over the challah. Traditionally, the Kiddush was recited by men.

What is the proper way to use the Kiddush cup?

The cup should be filled with wine or grape juice to its brim. The Kiddush cup is held in the right hand (unless one is left-handed). When starting the Kiddush it is customary to glance at the Shabbat candles, and when saying the Hagafen blessing one should glance at the wine.