What is the correct amount of wine to drink for the above and in what span of time?
A. See question above. When completing Kiddush, the one who recites it should drink a “m’lo lugmov,” the amount of wine that fills one of his cheeks. Poskim rule that for an average adult male, this is between 44-59 ml (1.5 and 2 fl. oz.).
It should be drank within a 30 second time span. This is the shiur k’dai shtiyas revi’is (psak of various Poskim including HaRav Moshe Heinemann, shlita). Other Poskim are lenient “Bedieved”, after the fact if it is drunk within four minutes.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Yaakov Hirschman, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a.
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