Editing Terah (section)

===Occupation===
[[File:Facial Chronicle - b.01, p.069 - Terah with idols, young Abraham leaving.jpg|thumb|Terah with idols, young Abraham leaving in disgrace]]
According to [[rabbinic literature]] Terah was a wicked (''[[Numbers Rabbah]]'' 19:1; 19:33), idolatrous priest ([[Midrash HaGadol]] on Genesis 11:28) who manufactured [[Cult image|idols]] (''Eliyahu Rabbah'' 6, and ''[[Eliyahu Zuta]]'' 25). Abram, in opposition to his father's idol shop, smashed his father's idols and chased customers away. Terah then brought his unruly son before [[Nimrod#Evil Nimrod vs. the righteous Abraham|Nimrod]], who threw him into a fiery furnace, yet Abram miraculously escaped ([[Genesis Rabbah]] 38:13). The [[Zohar]] says that when God saved Abram from the furnace, Terah repented ([[Zohar]] Genesis 1:77b) and Rabbi Abba B. Kahana said that God assured Abram that his father Terah had a portion in the ''World to Come'' (Genesis Rabbah 30:4; 30:12).

[[Hiyya bar Abba|Rabbi Hiyya]] relates this account in the Genesis Rabbah: 
{{blockquote|Terah left Abram to mind the store while he departed. A woman came with a plateful of flour and asked Abram to offer it to the idols. Abram then took a stick, broke the idols, and put the stick in the largest idol’s hand. When Terah returned, he demanded that Abram explain what he'd done. Abram told his father that the idols fought among themselves and the largest broke the others with the stick. "Why do you make sport of me?" Terah cried, "Do they have any knowledge?" Abram replied, "Listen to what you are saying!"}}