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I feel a little bit sick. Not like anything bad, but that annoying sinking feeling you get in your stomache. I have a bit of a reason for it that I don't feel like getting into. Suffice it to say that I'm not the most intelligent person in the world, and sometimes I get myself into messes, and before I know it, I no longer can deal with situations.

B'ezrat Hashem I'll wake up fine tomorrow. I'm getting together with Ilana Lyon and other Penn people for dinner, which should be nice.

Chumra of the week [ask someone Jewish to explain...]

So in Halacha we're learning the halachot for kiddush. Today we were talking about the cup, and who has to drink the wine, etc. The gemara in Pesachim says that the cup needs a measure [Rashba says a 1/4 לוג, which is about 3 to 4 ounces]. Another gemara in the same masechet says that someone needs to drink a "מלא לוגמא" which I translated as a full log. I mean the -מא ending could just be aramaic, and then לוג would still mean the same thing, right? It started to not make sense, since the Rosh said that you can't split the "מלא לוגמא" between 2 people, and this would be 12-16 ounces of wine... So we decided that in order to be machmir someone who is at the meal should drink an entire bottle of wine, and from now on I would drink that much at kiddush [I hope they have asti!]

Then we got to shiur and learned that "מלא לוגמא" means a mouthful of wine. Which explained everything.