It’s not the getting drunk on Shavuos night – or Purim either. It’s the people who are getting drunk the rest of the time. People who use the Shabbos table as an excuse to get quietly sloshed. People who mob the bar at weddings (and then step on your foot during the dancing because they’re too drunk to see straight).
Drinking has become a problem in our community – not the wild-and-woolly “Look at me I’m off the derech’ type drinking, but the quiet, hidden kind that takes its toll under the radar.
Let’s trade the bottles of hard stuff in for low-alcohol wine and celebrate in a state that we can remember the next day.