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The Cult of Peor: Why Would Anyone Worship Excrement?

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This class was presented on Tuesday, 10 Tamuz, 5784, Parshas Balak, July 16, 2024, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.

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Anonymous -3 months ago
Thank you for the gevaldig shiurim and for your ein tova

According to this pshat in baal peor how do we interpret this gemara מימי לא עברתי על דברי חברי יודע אני בעצמי שאיני כהן ואם אומרים לי חברי עלה לדוכן אני עולה

Thank you
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Nechama -4 months ago
Another shift to our neoroassociation
Another great debunking of a toxic myth engrained in our society.

Thanks!

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Alter Egoz -4 months ago
I believe the Rambam writes that if other religions
Can be considered as monotheistic, for THEM it is not Avodah Zora, or on breach of the 7 Noahide laws. (Its bad for a yid but not for them). Contrary to this are those other religions which worshipped many Deities. Bad for them also.

Was Baal Peor a monotheistic or polytheistic religion. We aren't told either way in the Torah and that religion is gone today. If it was monotheistic, it really wasn't so bad for them. Plus, if it was montheistic, the scatalogical form of worship for them wasn't so bad for them. The shiur says they worshipped the body's output, whereas they worshipped the statuette and the scatalogical manner of worship was just the means. We don't worship tefilla and didn't worship korbonos in the time of the Beis Hamigdash.
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Alter Egoz -4 months ago
What is worship for some is lothesome sfor others
Think of a genuine vegetarian in the times of the Beis Hamigdash or even today. We sacrificed animals then and still eat then today. Korbonos were a form of worship and a Shabbos seuda or seudas mitzvah with bread, wine and meat is also part of yiddishkeit today. But, to the genuine vegetarian slaughtering or eating meat is loathsome.
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Alter Egoz -4 months ago
Once again, with the aveirah of Baal Peor,
It appears that the women did not participate. Only the men were seduced by those women and then came to worship Baal Peor to meet their condition.
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Women's Balak/Pinchas Class

Rabbi YY Jacobson

July 16, 2024
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10 Tamuz 5784
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Graciously sponsored by Dina Dornbusch thanking the Lubavitcher Rebbe for showing us the way back home with the help of his dedicated and inspiring shluchim.