This week Commentary

Considering I can’t remember what the reading was but I do know my hubby taught mostly out of chapter 12 of Deuteronomy. It when G-d is instructing his people what to do, when they take possession of the Land of Isreal. My husband brought up something about Ba’al worship I never knew, I knew some stuff not very much. I understand why G-d would want us to take down all of their idols and not be worshipped in the same way as the people of where ever they where worship their gods. Something I always wondered was why would G-d instruct his people to kill the inhabitance of the land they took. While my hubby was talking today it became clear. Israel would have had a very difficult time getting those people to turn form their gods and their worship. It would be hard for Israel not to worship G-d in the same manner as the people they took over.
My husband compared Ba’al to being in a adult bookstore, which probably would have been like that. I wonder what the people thought. It would have been a challenge to clean it up and to take things out that G-d did not want. I mean it not like they had
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My husband said something to us today about maybe not trying to figure out why G-d said to do something and just to do it.