Crash Course in Phariseeism

[@vizii8111]

Thank you so much, Dr. Gordon for being courageous and speak the truth. The reason why they lost God's approval because they were stubborn, they listen to traditions over the writing law. The fact that they claim not even God has a say about the Law is crazy, madness and pure blindness.

[@lynnwhitaker1660]

Excellent teaching!!!❤❤❤ I also believe the written Torah is our only Authority!! I’ve heard it said the Yeshua had to have been a Pharisee in order for him to have taught. Is this correct??

[@williamdunlop3108]

Wow, that is an eye-opener. Thanks Nehemia, no wonder God must do what He has to do to restore Israel as written in Ezekiel concerning restoration in the vision of the dry bones. I do not look forward to the distress of Yacov but to the life of Israel. Shalom.

[@yonahlessard9582]

My Father who isnt Jewish, explained to me the need of Torah she ba'al peh, the oral law and he didnt realise what he was saying and i didn't realise the depth of it until i was much older. As a child i asked my father, how do we know which day is the 7th day? Maybe we are wrong, maybe we should do Sunday like the Christians? He said, if that were true an entire nation would have had to miss an entire day and all of them miss the exact same day. Without the Oral Torah you dont even know which day is Shabbes. John was named on the 8th day at his Brit Mila... Thats not written, thats Oral Torah. The first thing the disciples reference after seeing Yeshua taken up before their eyes is Techum Shabbes, Sabbath day journey. Again, Oral Torah Jude quotes Midrash as if it were written scripture. Paul says "to them were entrusted the oracles of God" Paul also proclaims in Acts that he is a Pharisee and on trial because he believes in the resurrection... Yeshua said of the Pharisees and of the Sopherim (Scribes) "they sit in Moses seat" but not the Sadducees or any of the sects that followed only the written law... So respectfully disagree

[@BruceWSims]

I have noticed that while the Holocaust is certainly remembered I can find little to discuss its impact on the lineal descent of traditions to modern day. I am familiar with the injunctions that a rabbi be ordinated by one of the generation before, but how was this impacted by the Holocaust and how are modern Orthodox Rabbi-s addressing this? Thoughts?

[@yonahlessard9582]

Smicha which means laying on of hands is the word we use to describe rabbinical ordination. True smicha was first from Moses to Joshua. Tradition has it that he laid his hands on several scholars of the next generation and so on and so forth but was lost around the 2nd temple period. There are no true Rabbis with true smicha in the world, and this has been for miliniea. Rambam writes that reintroducing smicha is one of the jobs of Moshioch...

[@imkadosh]

Dr. Gordon, is very much appreciated by his candid teachings. I love how much he loves truth! I appreciate this Crash Course in Phariseeism. The Scripture, the Torah is in heaven. That's where it came from. When Moses went to the Sinai Mountain God was there in the Mountain and God made the tablets there, but God's original copy of the Law is in heaven as a record. I said this because two men who died and came back by miracle these two men tell they say saw the Torah in Heaven. And not only the Torah, but the whole Bible, including the writings of Jesus Christ. As you might know the revelation of heaven and hell are abounding because people don't believe there is a hell, or heaven. So God is making sure people do not fall in hell by being ignorant, or by being unbelievers. How cannot be an original copy there since for God, His Law is the most important! Jesus said the by the Word we would be condemned or saved. We have to live Jesus Christ to enter into heaven. The relationship has to be a very deep communion as He says we are the bride and He the bridegroom.

[@rainyskye4787]

Funny the powers that be put a McDonald’s McRib advertisement at the end of this video. No thank you…

[@brenton100]

Seems youre missing the point. The rabbis you talk about were the heads of the court system, like judges. In fact modern legal systems are similar. Once a constitution is written, the high court (similar to sanhedrin) has ultimate authority to interpret the constitution even against logic, against majority vote of the people and against the king. This power is explicitly written in the torah itself. They weren't just rabbis walking around telling people to listen to them.

[@vizii8111]

Actually they were according to the New Testament. They were rebuking and criticizing people who didn't follow traditions. They acted superior among the people.

[@deepwaters2334]

They were only to be judges in disputes and when someone was accused; they were not to make up or change the law. Can you imagine if judges can just make up new laws as they go? Things will get corrupt very fast. What a mess! The authority has to come from the highest power in the Universe: YeHoVaH!

[@vizii8111]

@deepwaters2334 No, they weren't if you knew the New Testament, actually the oldest book, and first to mention about pharisees. It was never mentioned they made up random laws as they went. They were accused of making the Law burdensome and difficult to follow and acting superior.

[@deepwaters2334]

@vizii8111 I am not talking about pharisees specifically; they were just one of the more popular ideaologies among a group of about 20 religious sects in Judaism. What I am referring to is that the king or appointed elders/judges must judge in the cases where someone has been accused of breaking the law. This could be a pharisee group as we saw in the New Covenant Scriptures in the case of the woman caught in adultery. They tried to force Yeshua to be the judge rather ironically; he forgave her! The pharisees definitely had made-up religious ordinances/commands though.

[@brenton100]

@@vizii8111 Deuteronomy 17 grants power to the Supreme Court which sits at the place Hashem will choose (which ended up being Jerusalem) to rule on cases, and a careful reading of the text also grants the supreme court (sanhedrin) authority to create new laws. Any society's Supreme Court who have their hands tied behind their backs unable to create new laws, that society would completely break down. As the world changes, there needs to be, and the torah granted, that power to create new laws. Jesus complaining the new laws are too burdensome, therefore what, believe in him? Dont see the logic.

[@Vienzbow]

yeah they were putting their man made laws above Yehovah's... BIG NO NO...catholic church.... O.o

[@ZUL8R_DAVE]

Don’t forget to thank every Pharisee who wrote what you call “The New Testament.” Smearing Rabbinic Judaism is counterproductive Achi.

[@busimagen]

Why would he thank them? Besides, he does not believe in the New Testament.

[@ZUL8R_DAVE]

@ the first part was to the readers here who do, the second part was to Nehemiah lol But yeah, he’s confused because he doesn’t practice what he preaches… he wants everyone else to listen to it, but doesn’t hold himself to the same standard…

[@busimagen]

@@ZUL8R_DAVE What standard are you referring to? What is he not practicing. He's not christian; he is not rabbinic.

[@ZUL8R_DAVE]

@@busimagen Correct, so what is his agenda? After the defamation and deconstruction of Rabbinic Judaism, what perspective IS he affirming? It seems that the majority of his audience is Hebrew Roots Supersessionists claiming exclusive truth with him as their token Jew justifying and pioneering their disdain for Rabbinic Judaism… Would you agree or disagree with that assessment and why?

[@busimagen]

@@ZUL8R_DAVE The agenda is to get the truth, as best as he can find it, out to everyone irrespective of what religion they are. How is it smearing/defaming rabbinic judaism when rabbinic judaism says this is exactly how they are? This is their own beliefs that they state out-right. This is nothing hidden by them, and they are proud of it. Even when he says this in front of an Orthodox audience, they do not object to the assertions. There was nothing false stated, they proclaim it openly, so there is no defamation here, not at all.