The passage she mistranslated was “And he called his name J-hova Nisi, and he said because the hand was upon the throne of Yah (G-d),  the L-rd will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.”

She began to mistranslate the name “sheh-moe” which means “his name” as “place.” The word “shah-mah” means place. Further, she began to take apart (and mispronounce) the word “emunah” which literally means belief. She had some other explanation that I couldn’t fathom. Additionally the word “Key” means “because” and not “for” as she insisted.

She began to explain that there are only two camps of people - the Amlekites (another mispronounciation)  and the Christians. There are those who don’t serve G-d and those who do serve G-d. So apparently the Jews no longer exist even before Christ was born - they/we are all Christians apparently, as were Aaron and his brother Moses. But then she later calls those people the “children of Israel.” I completely lost track of the point of what she was trying to get across and then watched her launch into a southern soul/country version of “Amazing Grace.”

She would probably do well spending a year learning Torah in Israel.

Another great (little) winery is Ella Valley Winery (not to be confused with the far inferior Ella Valley Series from Kinneret which is a private label made entirely for export by Teperberg). Ella’s first vintage was in 2002 and for a vintage year considered relatively poor, the wines were very good. (more…)

The wine writers at the Wall Street Journal have a concept they call “Open that Bottle Night” (OTBN) which they invented, in their own words since: “All of us, no matter how big or small our wine collections, have that single bottle of wine we simply can never bear to open”.  What happens to all these special bottles we tend to accumulate and never want to open - they sit and sit since no occasion is worth opening them for. (more…)