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Rabbi Joseph Dana

Torah Lecture

Mishnah Avodah Zarah 1-7

Lectured by Rabbi Joseph Dana

Published
April 21, 2025
Duration
1:32
Lecture code
RJD-MAVDZRA-1-7

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You are not allowed to sell a bear, a lion, or anything else that could cause damage to the public to idol worshipers. Weapons would be part of that because idol worshipers may use them to hurt other people.

You are not allowed to build for them a basilki. That's a tall building that they would use to judge cases of the death penalty, and they would throw the person to his death. They would throw him down. Also, a gardom. A gardom is a courthouse where they would try capital cases. The itztadion is a stadium where, if somebody was convicted and guilty, they would have them fight. Sort of like the gladiators, they would have them fight wild bulls. There was also a narrow platform that was very tall, where a prisoner was also thrown to his death.

You're allowed to build for them a dimosyaot, which was a big structure used for entertainment and also a bathhouse. But when they were building that bathhouse and reached the archway, they would normally put an idol in the archway. So, at that point, when you want to build that part of the bathhouse, you're not allowed to participate in the building because the archway was built, and you're not allowed to participate in the building. It was built specifically for idols.