Showing posts with label idolatry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label idolatry. Show all posts

Thursday, 18 July 2013

pesachim 28

destruction by throwing into water
throwing away idols
and chametz

to crumble or grind. or just let the water take it away.


Tuesday, 25 December 2012

shabbat 83

trying to untangle the threads of connection between idolatry and different sources of impurity can lead one to despair.

that's ok. Reish Lakish says that engaging in Torah should be something that you could kill yourself over.

(multi-stranded lines of discussion about what type of impurity is idolatry, comparing it to a niddah, a corpse, a zav, a gentile man or woman, a creeping insect, animal carcass.... trying to follow the arguments got confusing but thankfully Reish Lakish thinks that the Torah that endures is the type of learning that really pushes the limits. for full english translation of this page of talmud, see here)

Monday, 24 December 2012

shabbat 82

the status and significance of broken things

the shards of earthenware pots, the fallen wall, the broken idol and the severed limbs of a niddah.

(for english translation of this page of talmud, see here)