Friday 20 March 2015

halacha - Does Chinese ancestor worship have the full status of idolotry?


In the front of a Chinese restaurant they have a small shrine - a succah less than a foot tall. Placed before it is a bowl of rice with vertical chopsticks and a plate of oranges. There is no idol inside it, rather there is an inscribed tablet. This is a method of sending provisions to an ancestor rather than paying homage to a god.


Do the items have the same prohibitions of a equivalent items snatched from an altar to Baal Peor?




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