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| Serious question, what's the difference between a Rabbi and a Pharisee? | | Published by: wktd 2009-01-09 |
| There were two sects of rabbi's in Israel (from what I understand), the Sadducees and the Pharisees. Both were rabbi's, but they were philosophically opposed to each other. From what little I understand, the Sadducees did not believe in life after death - they were more like modern day Republicans (to put it in relative terms), businessmen grounded in life on this planet. The Pharisees, I am thinking are more like Democrats, they believed in life after death. If you will note, it was certain Pharisees who listened to Jesus and followed his teachings and stood up for him in the San Hedrin when Jesus was brought before them on trial. Outside of this limited knowledge, I do not know anything more about them. Both were rabbi's.
A Rabbi is a teacher.
A Pharisee is a teacher who's specialty is interpretation of the law.
The difference is "specialization."
The Pharisees were a group within Judaism. They adhered to Torah and also the oral teachings whereas the Sadducees, for instance, did not follow the oral tradition.
In the Christian scriptures, you will note that the Pharisees are demonised and portrayed in the most unflattering light possible. But interestingly, several contemporary theologians surmise that Jesus himself was possibly a Pharisee - certainly his views on many things meshed with theirs.
The 'new testament' chastises the Pharisees for being 'legalistic', in that they followed the Jewish religious laws to the letter. Which of course is very intriguing - given that the same scriptures would have us believe that the same Jews BROKE every SINGLE Jewish law in order to 'try' Jesus.
Then again, the gospel accounts of the 'trial' were NOT recorded by a single eye witness but were written decades later.
RABBI
Back then we did not have ordained Rabbis. That did not start until after the fall of the second temple.
Our Rabbis are, above all, scholars; they are ordained and they study for years in Yeshivas; they are well versed in Torah, Tanakh and Talmud.
Rabbis are *not* intermediaries between us and G-d. We do not worship them or necessarily even agree with them! They are advisors, though, and do lead services, and of course most of them are people one can turn to in a 'spiritual crisis' etc.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/
Rabbi is like a minister or teacher of the Judaism. A Pharisee is the practicer of this political influencing social movement/school of thought among Jews.
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