There is
one Issur D’oraissa that is Nogea today that is probably the least known and
the most misunderstood of the Mitzvos D’oraissa and as a matter of fact it
appears in the Aseres Hadibros which is something you would think everybody
would know.
In the
Aseres Hadibros we find the Issur of 20:3 (לֹא-תַעֲשֶׂה
לְךָ פֶסֶל, וְכָל-תְּמוּנָה, אֲשֶׁר בַּשָּׁמַיִם מִמַּעַל, וַאֲשֶׁר בָּאָרֶץ
מִתָּחַת--וַאֲשֶׁר בַּמַּיִם, מִתַּחַת לָאָרֶץ). There is an Issur D’oraissa to make an image of heavenly
bodies that are in the heaven or earth. There, it is part of the Issur of
Avodah Zora. However, right after the Aseres Hadibros, the Torah explains in
20:19 (לֹא תַעֲשׂוּן, אִתִּי: אֱלֹהֵי כֶסֶף וֵאלֹהֵי
זָהָב, לֹא תַעֲשׂוּ לָכֶם). The
Gemara in Maseches Rosh Hashono (the Gemara has a long Arichus on 24b regarding
this) explains that this expands the Issur in the Aseres Hadibros. (לֹא תַעֲשׂוּן, אִתִּי), the Gemara says that the Lav of the
Aseres Hadibros applies to making an image to be used as an Avodah Zora. (לֹא תַעֲשׂוּן, אִתִּי) comes to include even a heavenly image not used for Avoda
Zora. As explained in Shulchan Aruch in Yore Dai’a 144, there is an Issur of
drawing in a 2 dimensional image (not a statue) of the heavenly bodies of the
sun, moon, and the stars.
This is
an Issur D’oraissa that is Muttar as the Gemara says to do it for learning
purposes but outside of learning purposes to make it as something which is
painting a picture for beauty, there is an Issur D’oraissa. Unfortunately this
is not well known and I don’t know on what newspapers like the Hamodia rely
when their weather report has the pictures of the sun. Perhaps they rely on the
fact that it is printed by non-Jews who are not prohibited from making these
images but still the person in the office who sets the page would seem to have
a prohibition. As I said, it is not a well-known Din but it is a Halacha in
Shulchan Aruch and nobody argues. That drawing an image of the sun or the moon
is an Issur D’oraissa.
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