Monday 11 January 2016

19) When Conformity Becomes Idolatry:




Many religious systems place quite a premium on conformity. Sometimes this conformity is taken to extremes.



The Kotzker Rebbe says; “If you copy my practices, convensions and actions – know that you would be practicing a form of idolatry. Any replication (without internalization) of another’s behavior is tantamount to idolatry.[1]

Rav Kook wrote similarly; "Keep me not in cages of material or of spirit..."

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[1] Amud HaEmet p.34, par. 5

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