{"id":8100,"date":"2017-08-09T13:42:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T10:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noahideworldcenter.org\/ask\/?p=8100"},"modified":"2020-02-27T21:23:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T18:23:10","slug":"what-should-we-do-with-fotos-of-worshiping-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/what-should-we-do-with-fotos-of-worshiping-places\/","title":{"rendered":"What should we do with fotos of worshiping places?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If a person made photos of the places of worship or idols, or photographed himself against their background, what should be done with such a photos? Should we check our old albums and destroy photos that have idols or places of worship?<\/p>\n<p><strong>The answer of Rav Hollander:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is not easy to deside in what case such a foto will be prohibited. If a Jew or a Ben Noah visited Vatican and made a foto of himself against it, hardly he did it to photograph Vatican specifically as a place of worship. That\u2019s why we cannot considered such a foto as prohibited.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise there is no prohibition to photograph ancient Greek gods because such cult was disappeared a long time ago and there are no people which worshiped such religion.<\/p>\n<p>In such a case when foto was made specifically for worshiping places, then will be preferably to destroy such a foto. Though there is no need to find (such a fotos) in old albums.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The answer of Rav Cherki:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Will be preferable for Bnei Noah not to increase a number of forbiddances. And if a foto was made not for worshiping, then perhaps there is no obligatory to destroy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: If a person made photos of the places of worship or idols, or photographed himself against their background, what should be done with such a photos? Should we check our old albums and destroy photos that have idols or places of worship? The answer of Rav Hollander: It is not easy to deside in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8101,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8100\/revisions\/8101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}