[Avodah] The Difference Between Idolatry and Moral Degeneracy

[Chanoch (Ken) Bloom]

On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 05:34 -0500, Yitzchok Levine wrote:
> On the Pasuk Bereishis 24
> 
> 4But you shall go to my country and to my kindred, and take a wife for
> my son, for Yitzchak.
> 
> RSRH writes
> 
> Lib'ni l'Yitzchok. Eliezer is to be guided by two considerations:
> First,Lib'ni ;
> she should be worthy of being the wife of my son; she should justify
> my hope that she will become my daughter even as he is my son. This
> is the general requirement regarding her character. But two people can
> each be of the most excellent character and still be incompatible.
> Hence,
> l'Yitzchok; Eliezer should make sure that the woman is compatible with
> Yitzchaks individual character.
> 
> Avraham rejected the daughters of Canaan, preferring an Aramean
> woman for his son. Let us bear in mind, though, that the Arameans,
> too, were idolaters. Thus, the reason for Avrahams decision was not
> the idolatry of the Canaanites, but their moral degeneracy.
> 
> Idolatry is basically an intellectual error, andthatcan be corrected.
> Moral degeneracy, however, takes hold of the whole individual, heart
> and soul. Hence, even a man such as Avraham could not hope to find
> among the Canaanites a modest, morally pure woman as a wife for his
> son, a woman who would bring with her a nobility of spirit and the
> purity of morality, as a pearl for his home.

This begs the question Avraham may have been willing to accept an
idolater (someone who was an idolater to that point) as a wife for
Yitzchack, but what does this say about Rivkah in particular? Was Rivkah
an idolater? Anyone have sources either way?

--Ken