Why One Who Prays Drunk Is Likened to an Idolater

Yalkut Shimoni on Nach 78:15

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"Do not give your handmaid before a daughter of Belial" (I Samuel 1:16). From here, that a drunkard who prays is as one who worships a foreign worship [idolatry], for it is written here "daughter of Belial," and it is written there, "there have gone out men, sons of Belial, from your midst" (Deuteronomy 13:14). Just as there it refers to foreign worship, so too here it refers to foreign worship.

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PrayerIdolatryDivine Justice

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