https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/962671/jewish/Negative-Commandment-16.htm
The 16th prohibition is that we are forbidden from leading someone astray by encouraging [even] one Jew to serve idolatry. The person who does so is called a meisis, as we have explained above.1
The verse which is the source of this commandment is G‑d's statement (exalted be He), regarding a meisis, "'[If your maternal brother tries to lead you astray…secretly, saying, 'Let us go and serve false gods…You shall put him to death…] and they shall no longer do such an evil thing in your midst."
One who transgresses this prohibition, i.e. the one who incites
another Jew [towards idolatry] is liable to execution by stoning, as the
verse states, "You must certainly kill him." The one whom the meisis tried to incite should be the one to perform the execution, as in G‑d's statement (exalted be He), "Your hand shall be the first against him to kill him." In the words of the Sifri, "The one who was incited is commanded to execute him."
Here is the problem of syllogism -
ReplyDeletethose who follow Rambam, maintain that there is no Pantheism. G-d has no physical dimensions or spatial presence. Those who oppose (openly or not) the Rambam, hold that G-d is everywhere, so in the cup of tea on my table, in the stones and rocks outside, and even in the wooden and stone structures that my Hindu neighbours place by their windows.The Gra tried to fight this, saying that Memaleh Kol Almin (Immanence) is only from His side, and not from our side.
if one maintains that the buddha made of clay also contains "god" or "godliness" as Sefer Hatanya, and Kaplan's Handbook of Jewish double-thougth claim, how do you get out of being a meisis? Is it the trick that "oh well, He may be hidden in that buddha and in that hari krishna pesel, but it is just not appropriate to pray in that mode, since it might create marit ayin"?