{"id":67578,"date":"2019-12-23T13:06:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T11:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=67578"},"modified":"2023-07-16T16:05:31","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T13:05:31","slug":"idol-smashing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/idol-smashing\/","title":{"rendered":"Idol-Smashing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[418,429],"acf":{"old_id":"67578","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":67068,"related_cahpter":"378","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"With a stick, or with derision","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When asked, many young children would probably tell you that their favorite Biblical story is Abraham smashing his father\u2019s idols. The story takes place while Abraham is still in Ur Kasdim and is left in charge of his father\u2019s idol shop. Various customers enter the shop, and Abraham scares each one of them away by mocking them for worshiping such worthless icons. Eventually, Abraham decides to smash all the idols. When his father returns and sees the wreckage, Abraham tells him that the idols had an argument over which one should receive an offering. Over\u00a0 the course of their squabble, the largest one arose, took a stick, and then broke the others. Abraham\u2019s father cannot believe what he has heard, and responds that idols don\u2019t have the power to do any of that. Abraham sarcastically replies, \u201cIf only your eyes would listen to what your mouth is saying.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Children are often disappointed when they discover that this story is not in fact in the Torah, but rather comes from the Midrash. Nevertheless, Abraham\u2019s mocking of idol worship finds its roots in Chapter 44 of Isaiah. In it, God repeatedly emphasizes the futility of idol worship and makes light of the fact that human beings cannot recognize that idols are powerless gods of their own creation. God says (44:9) \u2018The maker of idols, all work to no purpose; and the things they treasure can do no good, as they themselves can testify. They neither look not think, and so they shall be shamed.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Isaiah goes on to describe that the wood used to heat a man\u2019s home and cook his food is the same wood used to fashion into an idol. Yet, (44:17) \u201cHe bows down to it, worships it; He prays to it and cries, \u2018Save me, for you are my god!\u2019\u201d In doing so, (44:20) \u2018a deluded mind has led him astray, And he cannot save himself; He never says to himself, \u2018The thing in my hand is a fraud.\u2019\u201d On some level, human beings know that idols are powerless, but as was the case with Abraham\u2019s father, they cannot stop themselves from worshipping them. As a result, there will always be a need for prophets like Abraham and Isaiah to remind us to smash the idols we have made for ourselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Image(s): \u201cBroken\u201d by Erika F\u00e1bi\u00e1n (licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":67579,"id":67579,"title":"is44-idols","filename":"is44-idols.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is44-idols.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/idol-smashing\/is44-idols\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"is44-idols","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":67578,"date":"2019-12-23 11:06:10","modified":"2023-08-23 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