House of Shammai and House of Hillel - First Century History

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Rico Cortes www.wisdomintorah.com Jewish sects- history http://judaism.about.com/library/uc/uc_sects_a.htm Eighteen articles of Shammai (not sure if this is complete) http://halakhah.com/pdf/moed/Shabbath.pdf Jesus the Pharisee the book-Jewish perspective http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Pharisee-New-Look-Jewishness/dp/1592443133/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie;=UTF8&qid;=1323574828&sr;=1-1 The Baptist have 18 articles of faith ???? http://www.butlerfbc.com/images/Articles%20of%20Faith.pdf While Hillel's followers acknowledged that the Jews were God's special people, they willingly accepted Gentile converts to Judaism in the belief that the God of Abraham allowed all to worship Him who would turn from idolatry. When you read about Hellenistic Jews--or about Jews with Greek names--this was the school whose rabbis would typically have accepted these Gentiles into the Jewish faith. (This school, however, was not specifically a Hellenistic movement.) Soon after the time when Jesus, at age 12, was in the Temple astonishing the priests with his wisdom, Hillel (with whom Jesus may have been interacting) died and was eventually succeeded by his grandson Gamaliel, who was Paul's tutor. Modern-day Judaism traces its roots to the teachings promoted by the followers of Hillel who survived the destruction of Jerusalem and began codifying their teachings around 200 AD. Hillel was so wise that even two sayings we commonly attribute to Jesus were supposedly coined by Hillel before his death, and were being quoted by Jesus in the Gospels. These were the Golden Rule, along with the summary of the Law and the prophets (Love God with all of your heart, and love your neighbor as yourself). Whenever you see Jesus interacting positively** with the Pharisees (for instance, with Nicodemus or the rich young ruler), he is probably interacting with Pharisees from the school of Hillel. A good example of the differences between Hillel and Shammai can be seen in the many cases where "the Pharisees" watch Jesus to see if He will heal someone on the Sabbath. We can reasonably surmise that these are Shammaiites by the fact that the school of Shammai viewed attending to a sick person on the Sabbath as work, while the school of Hillel viewed this as a good deed that was permissible on the Sabbath. Another example of the struggle over Jesus between both schools is seen in John 9:16: "Therefore said some of the Pharisees (probably from the school of Shammai) This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the Sabbath day. Others (probably from the school of Hillel) said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them." On the one hand, you can see the school of Shammai rejecting Jesus outright while Pharisees from the school of Hillel aren't sure. This also helps illustrate the philosophical differences between the two schools, with the Shammaiites holding to a legalistic requirement that absolute rest must be observed on the Sabbath, while the Hillelites are open to the idea that healing is a good deed, and thus permissible on the Sabbath. Above portion of article provided by (you can read full article at his site) This article is written from a Christians perspective http://www.centralcal.com/crist2.htm