Now is a good time to do a Mitzvah
- Prohibition
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Do not eat or drink anything from an offering to an idol.
“Take heed of yourself lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land ….and will call you and you will eat their sacrifice” Shmos 34:12-15
Included is wine offered to an idol. From this wine offering it is forbidden to have any benefit.
If a person eats or drinks anything at all from an offering to an idol or a wine libation, he should be lashed.
According to the Sages it is forbidden to have any benefit from their wine and if one drinks a Rivis (approximately 86ml), he should be lashed for disobedience.
If a heathen deliberately touched the wine of a Jew it is forbidden to have any benefit from it.
He is forbidden to eat together with them at a wedding feast that a heathen makes for his son or daughter.
It is even forbidden to eat his own food with a personal servant who stands and attends to him
This applies in all places at all times for men and women
