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The first commandment is "You shall have no other gods before Me". It's not just "you shall have no other gods", they specifically included the "before Me" part. What about other gods after Elohim? That is to say, what if someone believes in multiple gods, and they worship Elohim the most, but they also have other gods they believe are less important or less relevant to themselves? I heard that early Judaism was polytheistic. Is this part of the quote from that time, specifying that followers of Judaism had to worship Elohim the most, but they didn't have to go around calling other gods fake? Can a Jewish person worship Elohim, and believe in other gods without worshipping them?

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How is a segula separate from using an intermediary? Because it doesnt explicitly say in Written Torah, unlike offerings and sacrifices that we should use segulot.

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my friend observed a wedding ceremony where the bride was holding a stained cloth in which the rabbi was talking about and he could not hear the purpose of this. I was wondering if you could tell me what this is, I have been to other ceremonies, but never observed this tradition.