<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Michael Makovi <<a href="mailto:mikewinddale@gmail.com">mikewinddale@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">> It was Jesus who said, "The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the<br>
> Sabbath." It's in the New Testament. Not exactly a halachic source.<br>
> --Toby Katz<br>
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</div>But maybe we can drink to the hava amina? But seriously...<br>
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<a href="http://www.aishdas.org/student/shabbat.htm" target="_blank">http://www.aishdas.org/student/shabbat.htm</a><br>
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Yoma 85a-b<br>
R. Yonatan ben Yosef[46] said: "For it is holy to you" (Exodus 31:14)<br>
-- It is given to your hands and not you to its hands.<br>
[46 Mekhilta has R. Shimon ben Menasia]<br>
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Mikha'el Makovi</blockquote></div><br>An acquaintance of mine was reading the gospels [not necessarily the rest of the new testament] and he found an amazing parallel to MANY midrashim and Aggados. and therefore It seems obvious that the early Xtians spoke in the dialect of Pharisaic Judaism and not Sadducean dialect [ and probably not the Essene either]. They were immersed in midrashic style mindset.<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br>RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com<br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a>