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<pre wrap=""><div class="moz-txt-sig"><div class="moz-txt-sig">From: Zev Sero via Avodah</div></div></pre>
<pre wrap="">What makes you think that these ovdei AZ weren't also ovdei Hashem? ...These
were <b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>not<span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b> untraditional Jews. They were active Jews who also worshipped
AZ, because they had a strong yetzer hara to do so.
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And the Doros HaRishonim, Tekufas HaMikreh, brings proof texts from
Tanach for this in the eras of the Shoftim and Melachim. And I've
come across additional ones. For one, Eliyahu's challenge to Bnei
Yisroel to obey either the Baal or Hashem, and not both, as they had
been doing. And the thousands of prophets whom Achav assassinated
were not a small portion of Bnei Yisroel who worshiped Hashem
exclusively. And their preachings, while they were alive, to the
Bnei Yisroel and Melachim to keep Torahs Moshe properly at the very
least kept the mesorah from Moshe Rabbeynu on their minds. And were
King David's tehillim expressing his love for Torah and mitzvos
unknown to the following Jewish kings and their subjects in both
Yehudah and Israel?<br>
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Zvi Lampel<br>
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