Libations in the Desert

Another matter: “Your branches [shelaḥayikh] are an orchard of pomegranates” – the Holy One blessed be He is destined to transform your desolation [shelaḥayikh] into a pomegranate orchard in the future.

What is that?

It is the well.

From where did Israel pour libations all the forty years that they spent in the wilderness?

Rabbi Yoḥanan said: "From the well, and most of their pleasure was from there, as Rabbi Yoḥanan said: 'The well would produce for them types of vegetation, types of grains, types of trees. Know that it is so, as when Miriam died and the well ceased for them, they would say: “Not a place of seed, figs, or wine” (Numbers 20:5).'"
Rabbi Levi said: "From the cluster, on the basis of: 'They cut from there a vine with one cluster of grapes [and they bore it upon a pole between the two]' (Numbers 13:23)."
Is that possible?
Rabbi Abba bar Kahana said: "Fruits were larger at that time."

The Rabbis say: "It was from what the idolatrous merchants would sell to Israel."

Rabbi Yishmael taught: "The wine of idolaters had not yet been forbidden for Israel."