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The
Pharisees (
/ˈfærəsiːz/;
Hebrew: פְּרוּשִׁים,
romanized:
Pərūšīm,
lit. 'separated ones') were a
Jewish social movement and
school of thought in the
Levant during the time of
Second Temple Judaism. Following the
destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD, Pharisaic beliefs became the foundational, liturgical, and ritualistic basis for
Rabbinic Judaism. Although the group no longer exists, their traditions are of great importance for the manifold
Jewish religious movements.
Conflicts between Pharisees and
Sadducees took place in the context of much broader and longstanding social and religious conflicts amongst Jews (exacerbated by the Roman conquest).
[2] One conflict was cultural, between those who favored
Hellenization (the Sadducees) and those who resisted it (the Pharisees). Another was juridical-religious, between those who emphasized the importance of the
Temple with its
rites and services, and those who emphasized the importance of other
Mosaic Laws. A specifically religious point of conflict involved different interpretations of the
Torah and how to apply it to current Jewish life, with Sadducees recognizing only the
Written Torah and rejecting
Prophets,
Writings, and doctrines such as the
Oral Torah and the
resurrection of the dead.
...}
The Pharisees sound vastly better than the Old Testament, but the facts are that Israel is does mass murder all the time, like blowing up the King David Hotel to murder all the British peacekeepers. Then Menachim Begin gunned down Folke Bernadotte, the UN Moderator. He did this so he could then start wiping out hundreds of native villages like Deir Yassin. And since Menachim Begin was still elected Prime Minister, that means all of Israel is still guilty, violent, and murdering innocents.
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