Pharisees
Self-righteousness is a current of thought Jews whose followers are called Pharisees.
The word Pharisee comes from the Hebrew word Perushim () which means separate. Respect the supercilious Jewish Law in effect forced the Jews to separate piles of the majority equated the Graeco-Latin for ritual reasons. As described by Maimonides in his commentary on the Mishna Haguiga 2:7: "Those who keep the impurity in all circumstances, including when conducting regular activities - does not need to be necessarily in a state of purity or holiness - are called "Perushim".
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The Pharisees are defined primarily as a movement of strict religious observance. They go into effect, in the words of Flavius Josephus , "to prevail on other Jews by piety and by a more accurate interpretation of the Act." They are so one-upmanship over the common practice. Their object is, in the words of one of their doctors, "to make a hedge to the Torah."
Precisely because the fence erected by them around the Torah and put away a syncretism true that the Pharisees were able to show themselves friendly to outside influences.
Their ability to change the Jewish dogma is the role they give to the Oral Law. Indeed, they go beyond the written text and the name of the oral tradition, revealed to Moses along with the written law, they clarify and enrich it. Their submission to the Oral Law in opposition to the establishment Sadducees who did not recognize his authority. It will involve the development of the synagogue as a place where one interprets the law. Self-righteousness is at the origin of the rabbinate and the writing down of the Oral Law in the Talmud.
The Oral Law is therefore an object of study more important than the Pentateuch, since it condenses and gathers the writings of the Tanakh through studies of the Gemara on these verses.
Unlike the Zealots , the Pharisees do little politics. They are willing to accept foreign occupation as long as their religious freedom is guaranteed but they are adamant on this point and join the armed struggle when that freedom will be curtailed.
History
The origins of self-righteousness are obscure. It seems that this ideology has slowly matured in generations of scribes and sages associated with the work of the Sanhedrin. His assertion as conscious and organized movement is due to the Maccabean revolt against the Hellenism emerged under the rule Syria in the second century BC. AD.
Under the rule Hasmonean , the Pharisees are in competition with Saduccens for spiritual direction of Judea and the Jewish people. They seem to be a movement with a strong popular base consists of farmers and urban thinking. Instead, Saduccens seem to represent the interests of the priestly caste traditionally associated with political power.
When the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem by the Romans ( 70 AD) and the dispersion of the Jews, the Pharisees alone survive. They are only in effect be able to accommodate the loss of the Temple and to have an alternative structure for growing tradition. Therefore, the term fell into disuse because righteousness is confused with Judaism.
Proselytizing
The proselytizing Jewish Pharisee is a product even though its acceptance varies by Wise. While some turn away in horror of the heathen impious and unclean, others, putting into practice the teaching of Isaiah , trying to win them to the true faith and the practice of law.
Hillel , the most famous of the Pharisees would have responded to a potential proselyte who summoned to summarize the law as it stood on one leg: "This hateful thee, do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah, the rest is commentary. Go and study it! "
Christianity
see also: Council of Jerusalem
In the Gospel of Luke , the parable of the Pharisee and the Publican Pharisee introduced as a man and superficial fat attached to the letter and not the spirit of the Act. Also, Paul of Tarsus , the Apostle Paul, himself originally a Pharisee. However, while in Alexandria the primitive Christianity is growing as a Jewish sect, the first sense of what we call Judeo-Christianity , Paul is concerned with developing the movement among the nations, and for that, it will concentrate its doctrine on monitoring the teaching of Jesus in freeing Christianity from the heavy duties of the Hebrew religion.
Throughout the New Testament , the hypocrisy is condemned for its worship of a tradition that pervades the human oral Torah revealed by God.
Pharisees notorious
Wikisource
History of the Jews by Heinrich Graetz
Notes
| Currents related to Judaism | Mosaic Yahwism Samaritanism Sabbatasme Frankisme |    |
| Historical currents | Judean sect: Sadducees Boethusiens Pharisees Chassidim Essenes Zealots Sicarii Hellenistic Judaism : Jews of Elephantine Therapeutae Jews from the Hellenistic and Roman Egypt Min : Nazarenes Ebionites Crinthiens Elcsates Currents of the eighth century Issawi Yudghanisme | |
| Orthodox Judaism | Modern Orthodox Dati Leumi | |
| Ultra-Orthodox | Hasidim : Lubavitch Gur Breslav Belz Satmar Non-Hassidim : Mussar Edah Haredit Neturei Karta Hardal | |
| Karaism | Pineapple Benjamins Avelei Tzion Tiflissim Asheri Talmid | |
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