You said this:
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Hand washing was a tradition of the Pharisees. It was ceremonially done in a prescribed manner that had nothing to do with sanitation.
Jesus knows the importance of good hygieneore than any of us. But this was about a ritual, nothing more.
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For the Pharisees it was about ritual purity. In their beady little minds it wasn't about love.
I am asking for proof.
Your bare web address for a modern religion (1911 origin) is a joke.
I am talking about the claims you made about the very strict 1st century followers of the Torah: The Pharisees.
You keep saying that the pork issue was about health (with ZERO evidence), yet you deny the hand washing was about health.
I haven't found any evidence to back up your (very contradictory) claims.
The pork ban had 0% to do with health.
However:
The various hand washing rules might possibly have some health-related components.
Here is one translation of rabbinical food rules WHICH MIGHT RELATE TO HEALTH.
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Tosefta - Wikipedia )
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Tannaim - Wikipedia )
Jacob Neusner has had questions raised about his translations.
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Comparative Hermeneutics of Rabbinic Judaism, The, Volume One: Introduction ...
By Jacob Neusner
2000
p.73
T. 5:8 One should not take a bite from a piece [of bread] and return it to the [common] plate, on account of mortal danger [to others who may thereby be infected by communicable diseases].
Here is another from sefaria.org, with actual rabbinical text parallel.
Tosefta Berakhot 5
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A person should not take a bite from a piece [of bread] and then put it back into the [common] dish [with bread], because of danger.
The relevant part is the end: ‘ .
In the dish IS ‘
from the face or to keep away IS
danger or mortal danger IS
of souls or lives IS
QUESTION
How can you contradict yourself, and say the food rules in the first-century TRADITIONS aren't (at all?) about health , when it comes to the people who followed the LAW OF MOSES (strictly as a way of life), yet you claim that the original LAW OF MOSES was all about health - when it came to the parts that involved food?
Edited by LamarkNewAge, : No reason given.