28 Menachem Av 5785
Erev Shabbat Kodesh
Parashat Re'eh
...Moshe explained to the Jews: "Eretz Canaan is full of objects pertaining to idol worship. You cannot build a Land of holiness, with a Beit Hamikdash in its midst, while surrounded by the artifacts of idolatry.""Eliminate everything associated with idolatry - such as altars, stones, or trees - by whatever method is most effective. Demolish them, burn them, or cast them into the sea. Leave no trace of idolatry! If a place was named after idols, change its name."
While it is a mitzvah to eliminate idols in any country (where Jews have the legal power to do so), in Eretz Yisrael the obligation goes further: The Jews are required not only to destroy all known idols, but must search for and demolish all the hidden ones as well.
The Torah repeatedly emphasizes that idolatry is the severest of sins. There could be no greater audacity than using one's intellect, which is capable of inferring the presence of the Creator, to deny G-d's uniqueness and attribute the vast intelligence that obviously activates all of creation to powers other than Him [even another human being.]
...The Torah declares that besides the inherent evil of worshiping idols, G-d hates the wicked rites of the idolaters. A Jew must therefore distance himself from all idolatrous practices.
...Moshe warned the Jews, "If any 'prophet' - whether Jewish or otherwise - ever arises in your midst and claims that a deity other than Hashem gave him a prophetic message, or even claims that Hashem Himself ordered the permanent abrogation of any mitzva of the Torah, know that he is an imposter. ...Do not attribute any truth to his words, even if he performs wonders in heaven or on earth. [Even if he says he is here to "stand with Israel."] ...G-d is testing your loyalty to Him.
...The Torah enacts very strict laws against a maisis, a (Jewish) "instigator" or "missionary" who attempts to persuade our people to accept strange gods.
He is not included in the law of "loving a fellow Jew." Rather, it is a mitzva to hate him, in accordance with "Hashem, do I not hate those who hate You?" (Tehillim 39.21) He may also not be judged favorably, not treated mercifully, and in his case, Beit Din is exempt from its usual obligation to find exonerating factors for someone condemned to death.
...Rambam comments, "By not favoring a rasha and not covering up for him, we bring peace upon the Jewish people."Even if you want to say that Chr*stianity is allowed to the gentiles - it is NOT ALLOWED to gentiles in Eretz Yisrael!! And even if you believe that they have "pure" motives, we are forbidden to allow them to perform Chr*stian worship on holy soil. How much more so to invite them to do so and to participate in it or even observe it!In Sefer HaMitzvot it is written, "It is a negative commandment 213 not to turn astray after idol-worship, neither in thought nor in word, nor even by watching."Sefer HaChinuch Negative Commandment 426 - "show no mercy to idol-worshippers (we should have no kind feelings for those who worship idols, and nothing about them should be good or pleasing in our eyes; in other words, we should remove far from our mind, and it should not [ever] arise in our speech, that there could be anything of value in one who worships in idolatry, and he should find no grace or favor in our eyes)
I've said this before, but it's worth saying again and again and again if I can get this idea across. The extent to which this sounds harsh or extreme to you is the extent to which you have assimilated Western values which stand in contradiction to Torah law.
Hashem says His thoughts are above our thoughts. It's up to us to align ourselves with the Torah and not to try to change it to fit "the times." We've become too complacent about this matter and too accepting of Chr*stianity even to the point of denying that is even idolatry.
It is absolutely abhorrent to HKB"H and for that very reason, so should it be to us as well!!
~ Shabbat Shalom - Chodesh Tov ~
Always you are critical of everybody.
ReplyDeleteThank Gd, many Jews are not hate thinkers like you.
change y our middot ....
Stop your baseless hatered.
Baba aku
Sorry Baba aku, Tomer Devorah is absolutely spot-on, as usual.
DeleteWe have to see the good in this chaos but not only chaos and ignoring the good, like ch''ch geula is not coming, see the Light, stop seeing only darkness. If someone can't do it, he has to stop blogging bc it's tum'a.
Deleteme
you missed the point that was stated so clearly . i didn't read, 'everybody,' as you stated . i read in the above article, ' to hate the idol worshippers - their behavior and to stay away.
DeleteIt’s the Truth . The land is designated only for the Jews !!!
DeleteWorshipping the land is also avodah zora. EY is not our right it is our responsibility given to us by the One Above to destroy any AZ on it including those who claim religiosity but worship the land before worshipping Him.
DeleteOf course it's idolatry!! Anyone that says it isn't has financial or political motives. Its idol worship whether its here in Eretz Yisroel or in Chul.
ReplyDeleteBut its worse here in E"Y because its an absolute humiliation to the Shechina in Hashem's dwelling place. And to allow them to come to the kotel or 100 times worse to go up on Har Habayit sickens me.
CSF
Very important post! Excellent above comment.
ReplyDeleteWhat is going on in EY now proves that it is the Erev Rav who rule!
Every G-D fearing Jew, especially those who call themselves religious
or even traditional, should know that instinctively and knowledge wise.
Turn the clock back a couple of decades ago, and what is going on
now would have been unthinkable & unimaginable. The idea that
it has not only become acceptable but has grown to such an extent
where it has become so natural to seeing this avodah zorah looming
in the streets of Yerushalayim and other parts of Israel.
I worry for Am Yisrael because of the punishment from Above
that might be awaiting us, chas v'chalilah.
Hashem Yerachem v'Yislach (b'chesed) l'Amo Yisrael because the
whole world is now twisted.
chelm
So, the golden thingie must come down.
ReplyDeleteWhen I wrote my above comment, there was just one comment above
ReplyDeletemine. The rest I do not agreel with. I might agree with not worshipping
the Land; and that alone, of course, is not permissable. Torah is not pick and choose. Hashem, Torah, Land, Am Yisrael are one! The Land has become filled with Jews(?) from all four corners of the earth; most being far removed from true Torah values. If the Land was not under the control of the infamous Erev Rav, we would not have reached the low level we are at. I see very little probability of great changes taking place until either of our two meshichim take full charge, unless a miracle takes place and all the true Jews wake up and make the changes happen!
chelm