Nullification of Idolatry
Question
The Halacha states that a non-Jew can nullify idolatry, but a Jew cannot. Can the Almighty nullify idolatry? When God performs a miracle and idolatry is broken, as with the gods of Egypt or Dagon in the Book of Samuel, is the idolatry considered nullified?
Answer
Shalom Rav,
This is not considered a nullification.
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Answers questions at Rav Amram Fried's Beit Horaah
Smicha "Yoreh-Yoreh" (2012), Rav Amram Fried's Beit Horaah
Orach Chaim, Yoreh Deah
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Source
Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh De'ah, Laws of Idolatry, Siman 146, Se'if 11
Idolatry of a non-Jew that broke on its own, its fragments are forbidden for use until it is nullified.
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