Talk:Idolatry in Judaism

message: I have just now made a new entry— Cult image— an unfamiliar expression, apparently, but it is the educated usage: "Idols!" Earlier today, someone made a bot that ran through Wikipedia redirecting all links of idol secretly to idolatry! How elegant. "Idols!" "Idols" are worshipped by "natives" aren't they? invariably dark-skinned natives, who grovel before "idols" in the Oriental dust. Europeans don't worship "idols": they put them in museums. Idols are non-Christian, and, quite tellingly, "idols" are non-European too. The Hermes of Praxiteles is never an "idol". Idols have jewels in their navels, to be filched by Indiana Jones... perhaps someone would like to edit "idols" out of this article. --Wetman 20:34, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: "Idols!"

message: The current title of this article implies that the article is about the idolatrous aspects of the Jewish religion. This is not its content. Perhaps we should rename to something like "Jewish view of idolatry"? Frikle 22:10, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I was about to make essentially that change, for exactly that reason. (Jewish views of idolatry would be more accurate.) I was restrained by both respect for the opinions of the many better versed on the subject than i, and by the ambiguity between Jewish descent and/or ethnicity on one hand, and adherance (self- or group-perceived) to Judaism.  A change is needed, and Views in Judaism on idolatry, tho slightly awkward, will be at least an improvement if no one offers a further improvement.--Jerzy•t 15:41, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Rename?

message: Should the article mention the Golden Calf? --84.20.17.84 07:55, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Of course it should. Nahum (talk) 10:38, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Golden calf 

message: It should also mention Jesus in the section titled "Worship of humans." However, I'll leave that for people with more reference books than me. -- Nahum (talk) 10:38, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, it should be made clear that the opposition to Christianity has never really been lifted in mainstream Judaism. ADM (talk) 09:29, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Jesus and Christianity

message: Anybody ever notice a Jewish service in which the Torah gets bowed to? Or Jerusalem? How does that square with the Jewish ban on idolatry? 68.32.48.221 (talk) 04:36, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Torah worship=idolatry? 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Expand upon the Talmud’s treatment of idolatry of money and power—non-figurative and symbolic idolatry. 2601:245:4101:8800:EA:D09A:1AE2:A017 (talk) 16:33, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Idolatry and the modern age? 

message: This is not strictly true.   While Judaism has never sought to impose the faith on non-Jews, it does require the elimination of idolatry from the world.   There have been periods of forced conversion.  See the Forced Conversion article Suggest it is re worded. Pngeditor (talk) 19:51, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Forced conversion 

message: This is listed as the 37th of 613 Commandments in the תרי"ג מצוות (taryag mitzvot) Stjohn1970 (talk) 01:56, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  37th Commandment