FROM THIS WEEK’S TORAH PORTION – KY THISSA:

Do you possess any idols? Think about it.

In view of this command, are they worth keeping?

“And He said, ‘See, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I am going to do wonders such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of YHWH. For what I am doing with you is awesome. Guard what I command you today. See, I am driving out from before you the Amorite and the Kena’anite and the Chittite and the Perizzite and the Chiwwite and the Yevusite. Guard yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be a snare in your midst. But break down their altars, and smash their pillars, and cut down their Asherim – for you do not bow yourselves to another mighty one, for YHWH, whose Name is jealous, is a jealous Ěl – lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they whore after their mighty ones, and slaughter to their mighty ones, and one of them invites you and you eat of his sacrifices, and you take of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters whore after their mighty ones, and make your sons whore after their mighty ones. Do not make a molded mighty one for yourselves.”