Post by alon on Jun 16, 2014 18:07:27 GMT -8
Matthew 23:2 "The -teachers and the P'rushim," he said, "sit in the seat of Moshe. 3 So whatever they tell you, take care to do it. ..."
Romans 3:1 "Then what advantage has the Jew? What is the value of being circumcised? 2 Much in every way! In the first place, the Jews were entrusted with the very words of God."
I think this is an interesting way to look at Mat 23:2-3, and it's one I agree with. Too often we get caught up with mainC in bashing the Pharisees and discrediting their heirs, the Rabbis. But we need to remember Rav Sha'ul was a Pharisee, as was Yeshua Himself! And while I would obviously disagree with Rabbinical Judaism on many counts, as I've said efore, we should not "throw the rabbi out with the bathwater." They have, after all, been studying most of this (all if you realize the "New Testament" isn't New") for 1500 yrs longer than we have. It was their people who wrote almost every word of Scripture, and to who this Word is still entrusted. So let's cut the Rabbis and their predicessors, the Pharisees, some slack! Maybe even respect, admire and thank them.
Dan C
Edit: theloveofgod.proboards.com/thread/3384/out-wrong-thread
5th post down. Found out that, strictly speaking, the modern rabbi's are not descended from the Pharisees; rather from a small sub-sect of the Pharisees. Still, point taken we should respect them much more than is commonly the case.
Condensed from "Hidden Treasures" by Joseph Shulam, pgs 76 & 77:
God gave the text to the Jewish people, but the Rabbis preserved it and made it understandable and readable to all generations. Yeshua said this very clearly in Matthew 23:2 when He gave the Pharisees the right to interpret Scripture because they "sit on the seat of Moses." Let us remember, with gratitude, the labors of the innumerable Jewish scholars who, as far back as the pre-Maccabean period, dedicated themselves to the Masorah- the codification of the Biblical text including critical notes.
Rabbinic tradition gave the vowel signs to the Tanach which make it possible to read the Bible thousands of years after it was written. It is the Rabbinic Jewish tradition which determined the text of the Hebrew Bible and made it readable and understandable for the world. Rabbis also developed (hermeneutical) methods of interpretation of Scripture. Rabbis developed gematria, a coded method that enables one to interpret the meaning behind some numbers. We must be cautious in applying this today, however it was a well known method to the writers of the New Testament.
It is my firm conviction that when Christianity is restored to its foundations in the future, Rabbinic principles and attitudes towards the text will aid its return to true Biblical faith. The Jewish tradition of the Rabbis and their love and preservation of God's Word is a heroic and constant song of devotion and fidelity in which both Jews and Christians can have fellowship and experience the fullness of God's revelation.
God gave the text to the Jewish people, but the Rabbis preserved it and made it understandable and readable to all generations. Yeshua said this very clearly in Matthew 23:2 when He gave the Pharisees the right to interpret Scripture because they "sit on the seat of Moses." Let us remember, with gratitude, the labors of the innumerable Jewish scholars who, as far back as the pre-Maccabean period, dedicated themselves to the Masorah- the codification of the Biblical text including critical notes.
Rabbinic tradition gave the vowel signs to the Tanach which make it possible to read the Bible thousands of years after it was written. It is the Rabbinic Jewish tradition which determined the text of the Hebrew Bible and made it readable and understandable for the world. Rabbis also developed (hermeneutical) methods of interpretation of Scripture. Rabbis developed gematria, a coded method that enables one to interpret the meaning behind some numbers. We must be cautious in applying this today, however it was a well known method to the writers of the New Testament.
It is my firm conviction that when Christianity is restored to its foundations in the future, Rabbinic principles and attitudes towards the text will aid its return to true Biblical faith. The Jewish tradition of the Rabbis and their love and preservation of God's Word is a heroic and constant song of devotion and fidelity in which both Jews and Christians can have fellowship and experience the fullness of God's revelation.
Romans 3:1 "Then what advantage has the Jew? What is the value of being circumcised? 2 Much in every way! In the first place, the Jews were entrusted with the very words of God."
I think this is an interesting way to look at Mat 23:2-3, and it's one I agree with. Too often we get caught up with mainC in bashing the Pharisees and discrediting their heirs, the Rabbis. But we need to remember Rav Sha'ul was a Pharisee, as was Yeshua Himself! And while I would obviously disagree with Rabbinical Judaism on many counts, as I've said efore, we should not "throw the rabbi out with the bathwater." They have, after all, been studying most of this (all if you realize the "New Testament" isn't New") for 1500 yrs longer than we have. It was their people who wrote almost every word of Scripture, and to who this Word is still entrusted. So let's cut the Rabbis and their predicessors, the Pharisees, some slack! Maybe even respect, admire and thank them.
Dan C
Edit: theloveofgod.proboards.com/thread/3384/out-wrong-thread
5th post down. Found out that, strictly speaking, the modern rabbi's are not descended from the Pharisees; rather from a small sub-sect of the Pharisees. Still, point taken we should respect them much more than is commonly the case.