The debate about the central meaning of Tisha b’Av goes back more than 1500 years to a debate between Rabbi Judah who said Ei’khah can only mean (learning from) prophetic reproof, and Rabbi Nehemiah ...

6 Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and the others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, “My brothers, I am a Pharisee, descended from Pharisees.

Grieved at their hard hearts, Jesus healed the man on the spot. The Pharisees began conspiring with the Herodians (secularists) to destroy Jesus. Finally, the religious leaders were jealous of Jesus.

The Pharisees, Sadducees and religious people of Christ’s day believed that since they were Israelites, God was their Father by default, regardless of their lifestyle and indulgences.

It was what politicians call a “gotcha” question. The Sadducees, trying to prove the very idea of resurrection wrong, asked whose wife a woman would be in eternity if she had had seven husbands in ...

Was it the divine will of God to reconcile humanity with Himself by sacrificing His own son? Or was the death of Jesus the tragic result of a conspiracy by the Jewish religious elite, the Pharisees, ...

Pharisees and Sadducees were Jewish sects. Pharisees were concerned with the exact and precise study, teaching and keeping the Law of Moses referred to as Torah. They also believed in the coming ...