Tosefta sobre Deuteronômio 7:25

The one who purchases scrap metal from an idolator and finds in it idols, he takes it and throws it away and the rest is permitted. An idol until it has come into [the Jew’s] domain, he asks an idolator to nullify it, as an idolator can nullify idols whether his own or belonging to others, whether worshipped or not worshipped, whether unwitting or purposeful, whether under duress or willingly. A Jew who makes an idol, it is prohibited even though it has not been worshipped. Therefore he has no power to nullify it. An idolator who made an idol, it is permitted until it has been worshipped. Therefore he has the power to nullify. Rabbi says in the name of Rabbi Yaaqov, if a Jew made it from the beginning, he cannot nullify it. An idolator who sold an idol for [people] to worship it, it is prohibited, but if not for them to worship it, it is permitted. One may lend on it. If debris fell on it or a river swept it away or brigands took it or its owner left it behind, like in the war of Yehoshua, if the owners are going to return for it, it is prohibited. If not, it is permitted. The pedestals which the idolators set up during the persecution, even if the persecution has passed, these are prohibited. And can any idol that an idolator nullified be prohibited? Scripture says, “You shall consign the images of their gods to burn in the fire” (Deut 7:25)—what he treats as if it were a god is prohibited but what he treats as it if were not a god is permitted. And of a Jew, whether he treats it like a god or whether he doesn’t, it is prohibited. How does one nullify it? Rabbi Meir says, unless one strikes it with a hammer and damages it. Rabbi Shimon says, even if he saw it, struck it and it fell, it is nullified. And the Sages say, an idolator nullifies his idol and that of a Jew, but a Jew cannot nullify the idol of an idolator. Rabbi Shimon ben Menasiya says, an idol of a Jew is never nullified. A pedestal, the majority of which was damaged, it is permitted. An altar, the majority of which was damaged, is prohibited until one tears it down.

An idol and everything that is on it is prohibited. If one found on it wine or oil or fine flour or anything of the like that is offered on the altar, it is prohibited. Utensils used for them or their bodies are prohibited. If not used for their body, they are permitted. Utensils used on them or their bodies if idolatrous priests stole them and sold them, they are permitted. One scripture says, “You shall not covet the silver and gold on them” (Deut 7:25). How can one uphold both verses? Whether its body is clothed in them or not, they are prohibited. “With them”—the ones with which the body [of the idol] is clothed are forbidden, the ones with which the body is not clothed are permitted. Even utensils with which the body is clothed which idolatrous priests solve and sold, they are permitted. A marqolis and everything on it is prohibited. If one found on it wine or oil or fine flour or anything of the like that is offered on the altar, it is prohibited. Money or utensils, these are permitted. Others say, money and utensils that are on the top stone are forbidden. Stones that are dropped from the marqolis, if they seem to be associated with it, they are forbidden, and if not, they are permitted. Rabbi Yishmael says, within three tofasot of it are forbidden but outside are permitted. A Jew who brought stones from a marqolis, these are prohibited because they have been forbidden by the idol. An idolator that brings stones from a marqolis, these are permitted because they are like an idol whose worshippers have abandoned it. A marqolis which was pulled up from its place is permitted for benefit. A person who throws a stone on a marqolis, what does it say of him? “Like a pebble in a sling, so is paying honor to a dullard” (Prov 26:8). Honor [given] by way of throwing a stone to a marqolis but the honor it does not recognize, so too all who give honor to an evil person who does not know the honor given it. Another thing: Like the one who puts a stone, just as one who tosses a stone to a marqolis practices idolatry thus all who honor a wicked person are like those who practice idolatry. Another thing: Like the one who puts a stone, the one who throws a stone to a marqolis becomes liable for his life, thus the one who gives over to his impuse becomes liable for his life. Rabbi Shimon ben Elazar says, the one who teaches to a wicked student, what does it say? “Like one who puts a stone,” as the one who throws a stone to a marqolis practices idolatry, thus the one who teaches to a wicked student is like one who practices idolatry.