Q&A: Building a Website for an “Ashram”
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Building a Website for an “Ashram”
Question
Hello Rabbi, I was asked to build and publish a website that deals with “spiritual” matters (not medicine)—all kinds of spiritual workshops of various sorts, and also different kinds of treatments. They call it something along the lines of an ashram.
In principle, an ashram is connected to idol worship, but it doesn’t seem to me that any of these people really mean it that way.
They gave me, as an example of the style of site they want, the following website:
http://www.desertashram.co.il/
Is it permitted to build and publicize something like this?
Answer
As long as this is not about directing people to idols, but only about spiritual techniques that come from there, it does not seem to me that there is any prohibition.