Full disclosure. I hated teaching a lot of this. This information is maddening and confusing and nitpicky, but it represents a real debate and struggle in the first century and even to modern times–the idea that human hands were automatically so unclean that they would make food and drink defiled if not ritually washed. It isn’t Biblical and Yeshua firmly stands against it in a number of passages. But what should the Pharisees and their scribes be focusing on instead? Their hearts! Yeshua felt as though it needed to be addressed and so we’re going to talk about it, the debate over the insides and outsides and handles of “utensils” covered in Mishnah tractates Kelim and Berakhot between Hillel and Shammai as well as begin to cover the top of ritual purity, which we will discuss in greater detail in the next teaching.
Context for Kids version of this teaching here.
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