Daf Yomi: Thou Shalt Sell No White Rooster and Bow to No Idols
Literary critic Adam Kirsch is reading a page of Talmud a day, along with Jews around the world.
As readers of the Bible know, monotheism was not a discipline the children of Israel learned easily. From the golden calf down to the Babylonian Exile, idol worship was an addiction they could not seem to break. The prophet Jeremiah had to keep hammering home the lesson that idols are mere things, made by human hands, and that worshipping them is “a doctrine of vanities”:
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