db120/Once again, Yesh & Mark have got it exactly


right in terms of the Torah & the oral traditions exemplified by the Pharisees & other innovators. For Yesh (via Mark) the "tradition of the el-ders" is a HUMAN creation, as opposed to the written Torah, which is (supposed to be) 'divine'. Hence the force of the citation by Jesus from Yeshayahu/Isaiah, in which Yesh says to them, "Yeshayahu prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips (only), but their hearts are FAR from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching human precepts as doctrines!' You abandon the commandment of G d & hold (only) to human tradition!"

From Yesh's point of view, the "tradition of the elders" ~ later called the oral Torah ~ is exactly "human precepts" being taught as doctrines, as in the prophetic formulation. For the Pharisees, and later for the Rabbis, the "tradition of the elders" is divine word and not human pre-cepts (though they were transmitted orally rather than scripturally)! "Why, Pharisees (hypocrites!), are you setting aside the commandments of G d in favor of the commandments of humans ~ hand washing, vows ~ as the Prophet prophesied?"

In this case, moreover, we have an admittedly pharisaic innovation, contested even by some other Pharisees. No wonder that Jesus would balk & protest! What we hope to have shown here till now in this section is when Mark wrote the words "PURIFYING ALL FOODS," there is little reason to believe that it meant "THUS HE PERMITTED ALL FOODS," but rather, "THUS HE PURIFIED ALL FOODS," meaning that he re-jected the extra-stringent laws of defiled foods to which the Pharisees were so devoted ~ NOT the kosher rules.

Yesh was certainly NOT sanctioning here the eating of bacon & eggs; rather, exactly as the text says, he was permitting the eating of bread without ritual washing of the hands, quite a different matter! The controversy ends where it began, in contest over the question of bodily im-purity caused by the ingestion of impure foods? It is highly unlikely that in its original context Mark was read as meaning that Jesus had ab-rogated the rules of forbidden & permitted animals.
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