It’s time for the wine! As you gather around the table awaiting that first slice of cheesecake—we’ll get there—look at the people around you and notice that, just like when Blanche posted that roommate notice on the bulletin board at the grocery store, the Universe has brought all of you together in this moment. You’re a family. Let the rest of the world go and appreciate the ones you’re with right now (even if they tell boring stories like Rose). 

Grab the wine or grape juice and fill your neighbor's cup (if we’re going to have to do all of this to get to the cheesecake, you’re going to need a lot of wine). Once every cup is full, stand and recite the kiddush. 

After you’ve recited the kiddush, drink… WAIT, before you drink, smell the wine, it might be one of Sophia’s hot toddy’s she makes when Dorothy is sick. You know the one, the drink that potentially killed her husband, Sal. 
 

Sophia: Pussycat, drink this. It'll make you feel better. 
Dorothy: Oh, Ma, another hot toddy? I think I've had enough. 
Sophia: Shut up and drink. 
Dorothy: This is the fourth one. Ma, that's a lot of whiskey. 
Sophia: I only put whiskey in the first one, then we ran out. 
Dorothy: Oh. 
Sophia: The second and third were vodka. 
Dorothy: No wonder my head is spinning. 
Sophia: This one's part Amaretto, part Sambuca. That should kill everything. Killed your father.

SOURCE: Golden Girls S3E11 “Three on a Couch”
 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0589859/


haggadah Section: Kadesh
Source: H. Alan Scott