The Lure of Idolatry - 10 Ways Idolaters Justified their Practices

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

and find out son Harry I just want to add that he's a published scholar in many different publications including Journal of philosophy contemporary society Jewish Bible quarterly Cove a comma or and Co Bates Cola Torah he lectures he writes he's a brilliant man and he's today coming to us with a fascinating topic that most of us probably don't know that much about least I don't I speak it myself he's least I don't I speak it myself he's going to be giving us the name of his book that he wrote is God versus gods and he's going to be speaking to us about the history of idolatry why was this such a lord towards avodah Zarah why were people attached to it and what is considered about Azura have was not considered about Azara he has so much to talk about I'm sure our question and answer period afterwards will be fascinating without further ado I want to introduce ruff line of Rubik wine I'm gonna go ahead line of Rubik wine I'm gonna go ahead now and I'm going to mute all the participants and well so we have better sound all right thank you very much as his mom is an honor thank you to mrs. Frank and mrs. don't worry about it yeah if we get don't worry about it yeah if we get enough people maybe we can do some sort of sale together in the stores it's like 100 shekels or whatever this is my first book which is on the history of the cottage this actually very interesting that you invited me to speak specifically this week will partial ah because in this week's parsha it talks about a special carbon that a person has to bring a special type of

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1. 0:00and find out son Harry I just want to add that he's a published scholar in…
2. 5:49like we understand according to our law and according to our traditions we understand that when…
3. 12:45angels and or them have ability to make decisions and they have to some extent baseerat…
4. 19:07hell's ultimen to-- so have also created a sham also created angels like this Saturn the…
5. 26:01strong that if you wouldn't live you would have lifted up your frock to go run…
6. 32:23and then false prophets came and started saying you know you should offer sacrifices in their…
7. 41:15and this is not necessarily intellectual this might be more psychological or behavioral but I put…
8. 48:13influence directly formations other lands are influenced through this servant this divine or these heavenly ministers…
9. 54:31could you reach a sham it must be a sham so to speak lowers himself dance…
10. 1:00:58order to do a better session comer versus coin so that's the first way of understanding…

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