Parshas Kedoshim (Rebroadcast)
The Parsha Podcast - With Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe
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The Foreign Gods
There is a prohibition here n the tora, to gaze or to examine or to scrutinize the foreign gods. Rashi points out that if you look at the hebrew of verse says, altinu l li lim. The first word to describe the foreign gods is li lim. So why the verse swich the name, the hebrew name accorded to the foreign god? Srashi tells us a fascinating insight. When it starts off, it's l el llim, meaning in hebrew, that means nothing and l means god. But after you accord some value, it begins to absorb some value,. Then it's upgrated to a elohut, so to speak
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