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Worship of foreign deities, one of the three cardinal sins.
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Calling a Jew a "guru"?
To judge by Wikipedia, it looks like the basic meaning of it is "teacher" or something similar - the Hindu use of it is a specification of that general meaning. So I can't imagine that it would be any …
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Is Christianity Avodah Zara?
In Jewish law, the idea of the Trinity falls under the catchall term of "shittuf" - worshipping G-d along with some other being.
Shittuf is prohibited for Jews. This means that a Jew would be prohibi …
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How would anyone ever "worship idols out of love or fear"?
It's not so straightforward that "out of fear" means that he was forced. Rambam (Hil. Avodah Zarah 3:6) explains "out of love" to mean that he is attracted by the beauty of the statue, and "out of fea …
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Did the Rambam believe in magic?
It may be that Rambam would distinguish between whether the magician actually did some kind of action or not.
Suppose, for example, you have someone who claims that he will use magic to harvest a fie …
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How to Resolve Kiddush Levana and Celestial Worship, (Avodas Kochavim)?
For question 1: The blessing is addressed to Hashem ("Who created the heavens with His word... Blessed are You, G-d, Who renews the months"), not to the moon. Where's the avodah zarah there? It's no d …
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Is believing that God, Israel, and Torah are one Avodah Zarah?
Rambam writes (Hil. Yesodei ha-Torah 2:10):
He is the Knower, He is the Subject of Knowledge, and He is the Knowledge itself." All is one.
Now, you could ask the same question on him: since G-d …
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If Christianity is avodah zarah and Islam is not, why has the Christian world triumphed over...
R' Chaim Dov Rabinowitz (author of Daas Sofrim), in his volume on Jewish history since the close of Tanach, in fact harshly criticizes the Jews of Babylonia for migrating from there to the Christian W …
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Dipping fingers in Havdalah Wine
Rema, Orach Chaim 296:1:
גם שופכים מן הכוס לאחר הבדלה ומכבין בו הנר ורוחצים בו עיניו משום חבוב מצוה
"We also pour out [some of the wine] from the cup after havdalah, and extinguish the candle with it …
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