FROM THIS WEEK’S TORAH PORTION – R’EIH:

“Completely destroy all the places where the nations which you are dispossessing served their mighty ones, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. And you shall break down their altars, and smash their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire. And you shall cut down the carved images of their mighty ones and shall destroy their name out of that place. Do not do so to YHWH your Elohim, but seek the place which YHWH your Elohim chooses, out of all your tribes, to put His Name there, for His Dwelling Place, and there you shall enter. And there you shall take your ascending offerings, and your slaughters, and your tithes, and the contributions of your hand, and your vowed offerings, and your voluntary offerings, and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock. And there you shall eat before YHWH your Elohim, and shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which YHWH your Elohim has blessed you.”