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Idolatry in Judaism (Hebrew: עבודה זרה) is prohibited. [1] Judaism holds that idolatry is not limited to the worship of an idol itself, but also worship involving any artistic representations of God . [ 1 ]
Some scholars opine that the pagans in the Hebrew Bible did not literally worship the objects themselves, so that the issue of idolatry is really concerned with whether one is pursuing a "false god" or "the true God". In addition to the spiritual aspect of their worship, peoples in the Ancient Near East took great care to physically maintain ...
The first exception, idolatry, is extrapolated from Deuteronomy 6:5 "And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might," meaning that one should even surrender one's life rather than serve any divinity aside from God. A famous example can be found in the Babylonian Talmud Gittin 57b, the ...
Justus Knecht gives two important moral points from the episode of the golden calf: 1) The Mercy of God. "The people of Israel had sinned horribly against God by their idolatry, and yet, at Moses’ intercession, He forgave them." 2) Idolatry. "The weak people were most ungrateful and faithless to God. The Lord had done such great things for them!
[citation needed] Examples of the later works include the Joshua Roll and, more controversially, the Utrecht Psalter. Leipzig Mahzor, hand of God delivering Abraham from the fiery furnace, 1320. The 3rd century CE Dura-Europos synagogue in Syria has large areas of wall paintings with figures of the prophets and others, and narrative scenes.
Repentance from sin (Hebrew: teshuvah, literally "return (to God)") has the power to wipe out one's sins, eliminating the punishment for sin and obtaining God's forgiveness. [4] When one repents with the correct intentions, one's sins are said to actually be transformed into merits.
According to Rabbi Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz, the tractate does include Christianity as a form of idolatry: Even medieval Jews understood very well that Christianity is avodah zarah of a special type. The tosafists assert that although a Christian pronouncing the name of Jesus in an oath would be taking the name of "another god," it is ...
In Judaism, confession (Hebrew: וִדּוּי, romanized: vīddūy) is a step in the process of atonement during which a Jew admits to committing a sin before God.In sins between a Jew and God, the confession must be done without others present (The Talmud calls confession in front of another a show of disrespect).