Commentary for Avodah Zarah 106:17
א"ל מאן יהיב לן מעפרא דרב ושמואל ומלאינן עיינין הא רבי יוחנן ור"ל דאמרי תרוייהו בימוס שנפגם מותר ואפי' למ"ד עובדין לשברים ה"מ עבודת כוכבים דכיון דפלחה זילא ביה מילת' לבטולה אבל הני שקלי להאי ומייתו בימוס אחרינא
He replied to him: Who would give me some of the dust [from the bodies] of Rav and Samuel that I might fill my eyes with it! Behold both R. Yohanan and R. Shimon b. Lakish declared that a damaged pedestal is permitted; and even according to him who said that they do worship fragments, that applies only to an idol because from the fact that they worship it, it would be degrading to annul it; but as for these [pedestals] they take this one away and bring another.
Daf Shevui to Avodah Zarah
Ulla graphically disagrees with R. Judah, quoting, not incidentally, a tradition ascribed to two Eretz Yisraeli sages. According to both of them, even those who hold that broken fragments of idols are prohibited, this is because they do not annul idols even when broken. But pedestals are not themselves worshipped, so when a pedestal breaks, they just throw it away and get another one.
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