In Episode 2 of the Artifact Podcast, we look at a recent archaeological find, a two-shekel weight from the First Temple period, found a stone's throw from where Nachliel grew up in the Old City of Jerusalem. This gets us talking about weights and measures, money and reputation, barter vs. currency vs. Trobriand Island economics, beauty, counterfeiting, and propaganda. Thank you to everyone who has been supporting the podcast by subscribing, giving us 5-star ratings, writing glowing reviews, sharing the podcast far and wide, and donating (please now use Patreon http://patreon.com/artifactpodcast). We have amazing things planned, and you are making it possible for us to continue producing the podcast. If you haven't yet, we hope you do. But most importantly of all, thank you very much for joining us on these wild adventures into history, ideas, and existential mystery. If you are a podcaster and you'd like to interview Nachliel or me, please get in touch. In fact, if you're anyone who'd like to get in touch, please get in touch. Our website is ArtifactPodcast.com; you can drop Meir-Simchah an email at meirsimchah at gmail dot com; you can find us on Twitter: Meir-Simchah = @MeirSimchah, Nachliel = @MuseumToursIL; Nachliel does that Instagram thing, again @MuseumToursIL; and we're both on Facebook where we have a page for the podcast intuitively named 'Artifact Podcast' (https://www.facebook.com/ArtifactPodcast). We hashtag our posts about the Artifact Podcast with #ArtifactPodcast, and so can you (hint, hint). You can check out Nachliel's podcasts on the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible) at https://www.tanachstudy.com/parasha-plus-study and https://app.tanachstudy.com/parasha-plus-study/sefarim/archaeology/bereshit. You can catch Meir-Simchah's podcast for Christians on the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible) at TwoChristiansAndAJew.com or wherever you listen to podcasts.

In this episode, Nachliel presents a cork from a bottle of wine from Carmel winery. The image on the cork takes us into Book of Numbers, into the history of the company that chose it, of the "First Aliyah," and of modern Israeli agriculture, into Jeremiah, and as well into propaganda and lashon ha-ra. Meir-Simchah steers us into considering wine more generally, as a part of human culture and spirituality, and that takes us into Noah, why he got drunk, the mind-brain relationship, earth and earthlings, humus and homo, adamah and Adam.