[Avodah] origins of AZ

[Eli Turkel]

I thought some more about Toby's remark:

>  >
>  > Any nation can sink to a golden calf, and many have.  You don't have to have
>  > first had an exalted relationship with G-d in order to worship idols.
>  >

>  > --Toby Katz
>  > =============

I based myself on Rambam who views idol worship as a substitute for a G-d they
cannot see. In a recent trip to China I asked the local guides about Buddha.
They also insisted that the idols represented some higher power.

However, Toby is right based on other sources that at times idol worship is
not intellectual but is instead an excuse for licentiousness (derasha
on le-mispachtehem).
As she says the wicked can get there without going theough G-d.


-- 
Eli Turkel