Episode Details

Daniel sits down with dear friend Hanan Elkayam in his new vineyard in the Elah Valley, the very place where David faced Goliath. Hanan’s story begins with Israeli irrigation technology and coffee farmers in Colombia, Ethiopia, and Costa Rica, who paid him in coffee instead of cash. That coffee became Agro Cafe, and now a small Cabernet Sauvignon vineyard is growing on ground he looks at from his own home. Along the way: a 2016 bathroom break that turned into a blessing, what it means to be “a tube” for what God wants to give, and why wine sits at the center of nearly every moment in Jewish life.

In this episode
00:00 Cold open
01:04 Standing in a vineyard in the Elah Valley
02:20 The gas station detour where we first met Hanan
03:49 Israeli irrigation, coffee farmers, and a 60% jump in yield
06:09 How Agro Cafe and Ten Boom Coffee found each other
07:40 Planting a vineyard where David met Goliath
09:39 What coffee and wine have in common
10:18 Answering the call on October 7
11:26 Resilience, and building anyway
15:58 Faith, wisdom, and being “a tube”
18:05 Wine, blessing, and gratitude at the Shabbat table
20:12 How you can be part of it
21:07 Visiting Agro Cafe in the Judean Hills

Scripture mentioned
1 Samuel 17: David and Goliath in the Elah Valley
Isaiah 49:6: “a light to the nations”
Psalm 136:1: “Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever”
Psalm 104:15: “wine that gladdens the heart of man”

Mentioned in this episode
Ten Boom Coffee: tenboom.coffee
Agro Cafe, Srigim-Li’on, Israel

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