avodah

We live in an olam hafukh, an upside-down world, where spokespersons for a movement permeated by Christian-style posthumous false messianism and even avodah zarah can accuse Jews who deny them automatic Orthodox legitimacy of violating Jewish values.

An interesting letter | Jewschool 2007

Remember, there are requirements for accusing someone of avodah zarah.

An interesting letter | Jewschool 2007

Now it seems to me, living in a place where avodah zarah of a certain baseball team is not just common, but expected, one of the effects of our assimilation into American society has been an adoption of the idealization of the “generic man.”

No More Boys | Jewschool 2007

But attending Yeshiva College is not the same as serving as a rabbi, a dayyan, a Jewish Studies principal, and, in the context of avodah zarah, a shochet, a sofer, and a wine producer.

An interesting letter | Jewschool 2007

OK, the source for the relevant Rabeinu tam is avodah zara 35a, but is rejected in the shulchan aruch yoreh deah 115:2 and the rama with goes entirely with the rambam.

Actually, Not Sure What’s For Dinner | Jewschool 2007

We have not come here this evening to criticize, to rebuke, to others, to those who would dare to say ma avodah hazos lochem †we have come here this evening to strengethen ourselves, zevach pesach lhashem.

What do the GOP and Hareidim have in common? | Jewschool 2006

Will be interesting to see how all my learning on hilchot avodah zarah um, idol worship shakes down as I wander amidst fallen temples to Zeus.

still here, just bleary - Danya Ruttenberg 2005

Will be interesting to see how all my learning on hilchot avodah zarah um, idol worship shakes down as I wander amidst fallen temples to Zeus.

2005 April - Danya Ruttenberg 2005

While Hadar and the other minyanim discussed in the book each have their own Jewish approaches, this larger vision for Jewish life is laid out in a way that is independent of specific Jewish ideologies: "the Jewish community would be better served by connecting to the original 'big ideas' of our heritage: Torah, avodah, and gemilut hasadim, for instance."

Mah Rabu BZ 2010

Setting up caravans as illegal outposts in the West Bank, farming the land, and using violence to deter Palestinians from reclaiming their fields, The Hilltop Youth are the new frontier, renewing the custom of avodah ivrit lost to the free market economy.

MyAntiwar.org 2010