(April 12, 2024 at 3:18 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: Odd they say "no graven images" so what are the statues and carvings of Jesus and Mary if not graven images? (I am assuming that "graven" means something like engraved, but I could be wrong)
You’re not wrong. The Hebrew wording is ‘…any graven image or any likeness of any thing that is in Heaven above or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth.’
Ultra-conservative Jews take this so seriously that they will not take photographs or allow themselves to be photographed by another Jew.
Boru
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