The Pharisees: Preservers of JudaismGefen Publishing House Ltd, 2001 - 424 pages After two thousand years of gross misunderstanding and misrepresentation, Hyman rescues the good name of the Pharisees from a polemical and tarnished imagery. The Pharisees were in fact common people who fought to preserve Judaism following the destruction of the Second Temple and the tragic loss of Jewish national life in the Land of Israel. |
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... Temple has been destroyed . Over and over again our doom seemed engraved in burning letters across iron skies . Yet we shall not perish . This I know as surely as I know Edom shall vanish : as all our enemies have . There is much ...
... Temple has been destroyed . Over and over again our doom seemed engraved in burning letters across iron skies . Yet we shall not perish . This I know as surely as I know Edom shall vanish : as all our enemies have . There is much ...
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... Temple . This was the purpose of the pilgrimage ; and it was for this we were zealous of the commandments . But should we have been inclined to be lax , there was always Dorcas . Dorcas ben Dosa was my mother's father , and the terror ...
... Temple . This was the purpose of the pilgrimage ; and it was for this we were zealous of the commandments . But should we have been inclined to be lax , there was always Dorcas . Dorcas ben Dosa was my mother's father , and the terror ...
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... Temple stood , our religious life was untouched , we should be satisfied . I will not deny Dorcas was close to the High Priest , an aristocrat among aristocrats . My father , Hyrcanus , for all his wealth , was not the patrician his ...
... Temple stood , our religious life was untouched , we should be satisfied . I will not deny Dorcas was close to the High Priest , an aristocrat among aristocrats . My father , Hyrcanus , for all his wealth , was not the patrician his ...
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... Temple Square on the Temple Hill by two tunnels ; the Temple Hill to the Upper City by a bridge . The entrance to the Temple Square was a Royal Basilica . No matter how often I stood within it , my pulse would quicken , as though seeing ...
... Temple Square on the Temple Hill by two tunnels ; the Temple Hill to the Upper City by a bridge . The entrance to the Temple Square was a Royal Basilica . No matter how often I stood within it , my pulse would quicken , as though seeing ...
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... Temple Vessels , as the Great Pharisees had ruled a century ago , was a flagrant perversion of the intent of Torah . How could anyone in his right mind believe the very men commanded to perform the Temple Service could contaminate the ...
... Temple Vessels , as the Great Pharisees had ruled a century ago , was a flagrant perversion of the intent of Torah . How could anyone in his right mind believe the very men commanded to perform the Temple Service could contaminate the ...
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Chapter XIII | 137 |
Chapter XIV | 144 |
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Chapter XXXVI | 402 |
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Common terms and phrases
accepted added Akiba answer arms asked become bless brother Chorazin commanded course Court dared dead death demanded Dena Dorcas Dosa Eliezer Eliezer's eyes face father fear fell finally followed Gamaliel gate grandfather HaMidrash hand head hear heard heart High Priest Hillel Holy Hyrcanus Israel Jerusalem Jewish Jews John Joshua judge knew land least leave lips live look lord Ludd Master mean mother Netanel never Nuri offered once pagan peace Perhaps Pharisees Priest question Rabban Rabbi remained remember replied Roman Rome Sabina Sages seemed Shabbat Shalom silence Simeon slave sons speak spoke stones stood sure sword tell Temple thought Torah true turned unto voice waited walls whole wife wonder Yavneh Yochanan ben Zakkai
Popular passages
Page 79 - And Moses said unto Korah, Hear, I pray you, ye sons of Levi : seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the Lord, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them ? And he hath brought thee near to him, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee : and seek ye the priesthood also?
Page 78 - And Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the Lord hath said will we do.
Page 19 - A voice from the east, a voice from the west, a voice from the four winds, a voice against Jerusalem and the holy house, a voice against the bridegrooms and the brides, and a voice against this whole people.
Page 377 - No proof can be brought from a carob-tree," they retorted. Again he said to them: "If the halachah agrees with me, let the stream of water prove it!
Page 424 - Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. And these words which I command you this day shall be upon your heart...
Page 392 - And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.
Page 392 - AND there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground.
Page 16 - And thou shalt tell thy son in that day, saying, It is because of that which the LORD did for me when I came forth out of Egypt.
Page 34 - And said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing: shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it.