To Not Have Any Other Gods

An idol is not always made of stone. Sometimes it is made of a salary, a status, a screen, or a feeling. The second commandment confronts the throne of your heart — and asks who is sitting on it.

613 Commandments Series | Entry #2 of 613 | Category: The Creator

Once you know He exists, the next question is unavoidable: does knowing change anything?

Entry #1 established the foundation — Yahauah is the Creator, the Self-Existent, the One who brought His people out of double distress. That is the bedrock. But foundations must be built upon. And so the second commandment moves immediately from declaration to devotion.

“You shall have no other alahayam before me.”