Understanding Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes 

I have learned more about Judaism in the past hour than I had in the past 52 years. Fascinating.

Amazing presentation!! Thank you for sharing this with us! Your channel has incredible content, may Hashem continue to bless you and your family.

If my synagogue taught like this I'd probably still be going as opposed to peacing out decades ago at 13 right after my Bar Mitzvah

Always so great to watch these shiurim. Thank you so much. I learn so much. 🙌

Every time I listen to this man speak I'm blown way by what should be Common knowledge but has been suppressed.

From a Noahide, may I express my thanks for your insightful teaching.

Four videos in a row. Outstanding content. May H”bH bless you and your family Rabbi.

The Essenes had numerous holy books that the sages did not recognize as genuine scriptures. Few of these "Dead Sea scriptures are even mentionedin theTalmud.

The Essenes believed Jesus to be the Perfect Purified Human, the Messiah, who was brought to the Essenes with his family when he was 2 years old & was perceived as Pure & Righteous. Jesus taught the way of the Essenes such as in Matthew 5.

Great lecture, thanks.

Awesome thank you for the education. Shalom

Everyone knows why the first temple was destroyed, but why was the second temple destroyed?

Brother, Plse help understand how King Ahkenaten is a figure that has a connection to the Jewish Faith. I feel he is part of our background. I come to you for understanding. 🙏🏼

Blessings! I came here to understand who the pharesis (you spell pharisees) were! I am Christian, & it's so very interesting that Jewish religion teaches that the Torah, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers &Deuteronomy Always existed? That it was eternal? That B4 God created all the beautiful & our beautiful Universe That God looked in the Torah as a Blueprint? I'm just at ur beginning of ur video! (I also just subscribed to ur channel!) I love learning about other cultures & religions! If we don't learn about each other & ask questions, there will never be peace among all God's children, all the ppl on earth! Now as Christians we believe God always was & will be! That He created the universe as it says in Genesis! Now I agree That First Came The Word Of God, That the Word Always Was, And Will Be! But, I can't imagine God who is ALL Knowing, & Knows all of us b4 we were born, and all the feathers on every bird, & every hair on every humans head from past, present & future and every grain of sand! & God who created the Angels, Heavenly Hosts, Adam & Eve, etc wld need a blueprint on How to Create anything? Doesn't that sound odd to you? He IS God! Why wld he need to check any instructions on how to make anything? Now that is someone not of your faith looking in asking this question!! Do the Samaritans (The Keepers) also believe this about the Torah? (as they Only study the first 5 books only) I look forward to your reply & I look forward to learning so much from you & you'd channel! Blessings to you and your family, You truly are God's chosen ppl! Love from Dayton Ohio USA the invention capital of the world!

הרצאה מרתקת מאד.עכשיו ההקשרים מסודרים לי וברורים היטב ייש כוח עצום וברוך תהיה

After all my independent research, I arrived at the conclusion that, second temple era politics aside, the Sadducees were closer to the true Hebraic worldview of the ancient Israelites. That is why I keep stating that human beings should be working together in order to pass on a better way of life to future generations here on this one planet Earth that nourishes us all. However, I should be humble enough to admit that I could be wrong, and I am grateful for your videos because now I am able to recognize the 'mashiahh' if there is to be one, but I keep thinking that no religion is perfect. Just this morning, I was thinking that the few Zartoshtis on this planet should reclaim the concepts of a Saoshyant and a 'frashokereti' that Jews, Christians, and Muslims have distorted. From what I gather, even the Magi and later Persian Zoroastrians lacked understanding of the true meanings in the Gathas of Zarathushtra.

The fact that this involved an oral tradition, it answers the questions I had on my mind... Times ahead will be very tumultuous. Everyone should be strong and remain dedicated to their beliefs in the higher power. Just because I love people and want as many beautiful people as possible to remain faithful to the most high.

Absolutely top notch. Im glad Josephus chose life!!!

Aaa, it's becoming clear in my mind as to what was going on behind the seens during the days of Solomon....

While the Talmud does contain some mild criticism of some Perushim, it references to the Perushim are usually very positive. Repeatedly the sages describe themselves as the spiritual heirs of the perushim.

Most of zugot are converts who didn't have actually chain of tradition with 40 generations of israel tradition before them. Zugot did reform on judaism and brought new laws.

Had no idea there was this much to it. Amen.

Beautiful!!!

The title "rabbi" is repeatedly used in the Gemara to refer to the spiritual leaders of the community as "rabbis" but there is no reference to this term in the Dead Sea Scrolls. There, the leaders of their community are described as "Zadokites."

could Zechariah 13:8-9 be speaking on this? The 2/3rds being the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the 1/3rd left being the Essenes who were refined by fire.

Excellent a lot of African American or Africans of the diaspora habits like saying grace and other cultural traits are Esscene

תודה רבה עוזר לי מאוד🙂

Thank you, brilliant but complex.

The people that keep interrupting are so rude and irritating.

55:30 abtalion and shmaya are both converts , descendants of syrian king. They changed Israel law and traditions. That tells all about authenticity of so called oral law in mishna.

58:00 you dont know what tzadukim means 😅😅. Really? Tzadokim are from high preist tzadok that are appointed To lead temple. Cant remember one profet said also that Tzadokim was priests in temple in 2. Temple.

Perushim could take some traditios of esens, but esens didn't wrote mishna. They wasnt in sanhendrin and didnt have ability to change laws and to command them to judeans. Only perushim had ability to do that , cos they took over sanhendrin.

42:00 Juda ben tabai os quoted in akdama lemishne torah as chain in mesora while he left his position as av bet din in 3. Pair of zugots, cos he didnt know perushim are planning to completely change Israel traditions . He left their ideology but still is quoted in chain of mesora written 1000 years later by rambam. Then Menachem, av bet din, in 5. Pair of zugot also left sanhendrin and fariseik ideology. And is replaces by Shamai. Shamai literary brought many laws. So menachem could be essene, he could have some influence, But he obviously, didnt want to do along with other fariseik ideology and he left.

16:30 what is oral torah for you? even rambam says that oral laws Torah Shebaal Peh, are decisions of sanhendrin,

Damn, these Jews sure like to argue with each other lol

8:31 holiday shavuot in Torah is not even connected to giving of Torah. Most probably, yom terua was day when Israel celebrated receiving of torah.

49:00 Tzadukim didn't wear tefilin cos its was not israel traditions. It comes as new tradition from time of perushim, and obviously essens adopted it. There is mo mention of tefilin in tanakh

The Essenes generally avoided marriage. The Talmudic sages required it for all Jews. Most Essenes had no children. The Talmudic sageconsidered children a great blessing, and urged Jews to have as many of them as possibe,

“The thigh is an area that is sinful”.

There is a lot of evidence that shows that Jesus was an Essene.

Abraham was Jewish? That is impossible. Also Judaism is a religion that came out of the Mossiac law with tons of addons and traditions that Moses wouldn't recognize.

Your imaginative claim that the references to the the "first sages" and the "hasidim" are really references to the Essenes is is iimlausible. Especially since the hasidim of the late Temple period as wandering from place to place preaching to the poor. Few if any of the Talmudic sages conducted this kind of traveling ministry.

The Malak Adonai

what's the meaning of "wicked zimmery"? (non-jew here)

it was a tendon jacob could not eat not a nerve

I mean where does the TORA mention the Talmud?

2:00 But avraham was not a jew or bene israel. torah was given after him.

Jesus was an Essene.

Josephus according to Reuchlin Abelard-True Author on New Testament, Josesphus was Calpurnius Piso! Is this true Rabbi

47:00 yes essens could be hasidim haRishonim

interesting you find in the “New Testament “ this verse Acts 13:1 וַיִּהְיוּ בַּקָּהָל אֲשֶׁר בְּאַנְטְיוֹכְיָא נְבִיאִים וּמְלַמְּדִים וְאֵלֶּה שְׁמוֹתָם בַּר־נַבָּא וְשִׁמְעוֹן הַנִּקְרָא גַם־נִיגַר וְלוּקְיוֹס הַקּוּרִינִי וּמְנַחֵם אֲשֶׁר הָיָה אָמוֹן עִם־הוֹרְדוֹס טֶטְרַרְךְ וְשָׁאוּל why do you think they put apparently the same Menachem there?

21:44 why dont you say to students that tzadukim are preists coehns who served in temple? those who kept israel traditions for 40 generations as is written in tanakh? those whoa re appointed by God, and torah to bless and to lead Israel? preciesly descendents of preist Tzadok.

Heavenly God doesn't require blood sacrifice, its abhorrent, its anathema to him! God is the creator, he constructs! He doesn't kill or destruct, the essenes are most Godly

Judas and Jesus of gamalia is interesting history some interesting stuff in Moses of choriene (Armenian) that is more in-depth then Josephus ​​⁠

The Essenes made a distinction Jewish people as a whole and the "community"--meaning the Essene community. By contrast the Talmudic sages did not recognize any exclusive "community" within the Jewish people.

It can’t be that polygamy is against the Torah especially because there are Talmud tractates full of cases where men have two wives

Why should I listen to you if you are the descendants of the Pharisees? When I know what the KING said about your peoples? Valid question, no offense

53:00 makabim

Rabbi what happened to your hair 😅

Could it possibly be, that just MAYBE, JESUS is the Messiah? And HE is coming back ?

33:27 why we ritualy wash hands before meal. 1. Its rabinical command made against torat moshe. To make everyone cohen. Then, we say bracha levatala, baruch ata adonai, eloheinu melechna olam, asher kidishanu be mitzvotav vetzivanu al netilat yadayim. And God didnt commanded us to do that. Its not only that we dont say, thank you rabiz for commanding us netilat yadayim, but we LIE that God commanded us that command. It is what rabiz made am israel to do, to lie, to say bracha levatala.

15:48 you see how you twist things on rabinical bias? you say: Yosefus was not like a rabi, for telling a law as cohen? but in reality , rabiz took over role of shevet levi , that torah commands, go to shevet levi to tell you law . parashat shoftim. where , show me where torah or tanakh, mentiones title rabi? just show me. and show me where torah apponts that rabi will tell you a law? no where. rabiz are self apointed autority, in pirkei avot. they wrote own book and appointed them self for authority

I thought Jacob battled Lord of the Present namely Israel and that He was only considered Esau’s guardian angel until Jacob supplanted Him and his name. Also wasn’t the role of Israel to help HaShem to complete the creation, and to do so by always pushing it in new directions so as to unfold it to the greatest extent. And if that is also the role of the so-called stumbling block, then isn’t Jacob/Israel the new stumbling block?

1:02:00 exacly Perushim derived their power from ORAL TRADITION , own oral traditions that they personally invented. And self appointed own self as leaders! Shevet levi derives power from only one written torat moshe. Its all make sence. The one who is occupying leadership position are rabiz who prevented building of temple. Stupid once are today cohanim, levim, who dont fight for their right and dont create own movement to impose prehazal judaism.

The Talmud repeatedly describes the sages of their own time as successors of the Perushim. The Essenes are never even mentioned the Essenes.

1:02 :00 haha how you twist things 😅 You say tzadokim denied oral traditions to maintain their power And you twisting the truth That PERUSHIM invented new oral traditions to gain power and to take power from shevet levi! Amd they farisees still keep taht power While shevet levi brainwashed and pushed in corner are brainless to take ower their torah duties.

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The Word of God: LOGOS: Jesus Christ is eternal. Jesus is the Creator, He is at the beginning. He is the high priest you are looking for: the Messiah: Tribe of Judah, lineage of King David. He is from the order of Melchizedek BEFORE the law came. Abraham tithed a 10th to Him: King of Salem. Jesus is the prince of peace, sitting at the right hand of the Father: He is our intermediary between God and man: our high priest. Read about Him in Isaiah 53 and the book of Hebrews.

So the "Judaism as we know it" is Judaism without the Land and without the Temple. Is it not the reason why God used secular Jews to restore the State of Israel?

This sounds like being slaves to ancient superstition..🤔

They were definitely false religion