Reply To: Yom HoAtzmaut and Behab

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benignuman
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To make a point similar to the one I made before. Avoda Zara has a halachic meaning. It is also used sometimes rhetorically to say something takes away from Torah and Yiras Shomayim. While it is fine to engage in rhetoric and hyperbole, it is important to know the difference between what is literal and what is not.

I don’t see any serious argument that Zionism in its religious form is Avoda Zara (are Israeli Flags assur b’hana?) in the literal sense. So please, if you are calling it “Avoda Zara,” clarify that you don’t mean that literally.