[Avodah] O vs pharisee

[Zev Sero]

On 30/08/2011 3:33 PM, Lisa Liel wrote:
> To the best of my knowledge, the only things linking us with Pharisees
> are Josephus and the treyfer sefer.

"The early chassidim ... and they are called Prushim".
Rambam, Tum'as Ochlin 16:12

Mishnayos Yadayim 4:6-8 clearly identifies us with the Prushim, and
R Yochanan ben Zakai argues for them.

The gemara Kiddushin 66a identifies the Prushim with "chachmei Yisrael".

Yerushalmi Sanhedrin 10:2 ("daf" 52a) identifies Moshe Rabbenu and his
Sanhedrin as "Prushim"!




>  The Gemara actually criticizes the Perushim.

Presumably you refer to Sotah 22a, where the gemara criticises *fake*
Prushim.  (The NT's criticisms of "Pharisees" may be seen in the same
light, as aimed only at the fake ones.)

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