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Our Daf’s Amoraim (Rav Nachman, Ulla, and Avimi bar Pappi) sat and inquired further: Can a ger toshav (a resident alien; a non-Jew who formally accepts upon himself the observance of certain mitzvos) nullify an idol (like an ordinary idolater)?
Do we say that only one who worships idols can nullify idols, and since the ger toshav does not worship idols, he cannot nullify idols; or perhaps, whoever is the “same kind” as an idolater can nullify idols, and since the ger toshav is an idolater, he too can nullify idols? Rav Nachman said to them: It is logical that one who worships idols can nullify idols, and since the ger toshav does not worship idols, he cannot nullify idol.
We explore the history and evolution of Jewish attitudes to the ger Toshav…