Topple Your Idols T-Shirt

All men must serve.  Throughout history, man has made idols for himself, even OF himself, and ascribed powers to them beyond mortal reckoning.  Our forefathers and prophets were iconoclasts in the truest sense of the word, breaking this cycle: Avraham Avinu (Our Father Abraham), recognized his Creator and smashed the idols of his father.  Moshe Rabbeinu (Our Teacher Moses), spoke with the Divine Presence face to face, and brought the Torah to the Children of Israel. Mattisyahu HaKohen (Mattathias the Priest) started a revolt that liberated the Holy Land from a brutal and oppressive foreign occupation regime that had declared observing the Jewish faith a crime punishable by death.  Mattisyahu’s act of defiance, slaying a Hellenist collaborator in broad daylight and tearing down the idol before which the man kneeled, sparked a revolution that would later be led by his son, Yehudah HaMakabi (Judah the Hammer—pictured here pulling the rope), leading to the events commemorated by the festiv