THERE IS NONE OTHER: How to Know Who Not to Worship? - (Idolatry issues) with Rabbi Michael Skobac
Channel: Jews for Judaism
Date: 2020-10-18

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THERE IS NONE OTHER: How to Know Who Not to Worship? - (Idolatry issues) with Rabbi Michael Skobac

It is clear that one of the most, if not the most, serious transgression in the Torah is idolatry. It is a form of spiritual adultery to give ones devotion to anyone or anything other than the God who created all existence and redeemed the people of Israel from Egypt 3,333 years ago.

In the Torah, God constantly focuses us on who He is and how to understand Him. It is significant that when He introduces Himself to the people of Israel at the revelation at Mt.Sinai, He doesn't identify Himself as the Creator because no one actually witnessed that. He says: I am Hashem your God who took you out of the land of Egypt from the house of bondage. 

In the Torah, God continually reminds us to never forget the formative experiences of our people. The dramatic plagues in Egypt, the splitting of the Yam Suf, the revelation of the Torah at Mt. Sinai and the miraculous ways that God sustained us during the 40 years in the desert. In the Torah, God tells us that He made Himself known to us through these experiences and that is why we relive them and remember them through the holidays we celebrate throughout the year. These are the experiences that God constantly tells to teach them to our children. 

Idolatry in the Torah is always described as worshipping a deity that our ancestors did not know. Worshipping anything or anyone that was not revealed to us at Mt. Sinai is considered idolatry for a descendant of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. It is critical to understand that not one person who stood there told their children that God was revealed in those experiences as having human form or as a trinity. 

Also see "UNDERSTANDING IDOLATRY" with Rabbi Michael Skobac https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3y6hPQgLMM

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