The Wine Inside The Incense

Send a Text Message to The Kosher Terroir There’s a line many of us race past every morning in Pitum Haketoret, and once you hear it, you can’t unhear it: Yain Kafrisin. Wine. Not for Kiddush, not for libations, not even to taste, but to soak a stubborn spice so the holiest incense in Judaism can rise as a cloud of fragrance on Yom Kippur. I’m Simon Jacob, and from Jerusalem I follow that one word into an ancient debate and a very modern High Holidays lesson. We treat the ketoret text ...