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I am completely able to answer these questions. The Pharisees always claimed that “an eye for an eye” was allegorical and actually meant a fine. When the Romans destroyed the Temple and the Sadducees collapsed, the Talmud, written by the Pharisees, became the accepted law.

Regarding sacrifices. After the construction of the Second Temple, both the Sadducees and the Pharisees agreed that sacrifices could only be made on the Temple altar. In 70 A.D. Titus destroyed the Temple. Since that time, Jews have believed that there could be no more burnt offerings until the Messiah rebuilds the Temple. The Orthodox Jews follow Leviticus. Reform Jews don’t want to. Call them lazy, call them assimilationist.  Christians cherry pick what laws they obey. [/quote]

So basically, you’re saying Christians and Reform Jews are on the same page wrt not following Levitical rules about eye for eye, etc. Both Christians and Jews got there hundreds of years after Leviticus. For Reform Jews the Pharisees did away with some of Leviticus. For Christians, Jesus did away with eye-for-eye and Levitical dietary and cleanliness rules.

What makes your post strange is that you continue to deny that Jesus got rid of Levitical dietary and cleanliness rules—because you can’t. Jesus said it doesn’t matter what you put in your mouth, it’s not what comes out of your mouth (see quote from Matthew in posts above). Jesus hung out with unclean people like prostitutes and tax collectors, and he let a woman wash his feet with her unbound hair, which was revolutionary in those days. In fact, one of the most revolutuonary things about Jesus was that he fought with the Pharisees over their zealous enforcement of Leviticus, which is why they disliked him.

I’ve heard it said that Leviticus is the first book (some) Jews turn to, and the last book Christians turn to. Except for Christians who are bible literalists, who are a very small part of Christians. Most Christians view books like Genesis and Leviticus as origin stories (some archeologists even find parallels for, eg, the bulrush story in Egyptian myth) and they go to the gospels and acts for how to live.

Are you the poster who spent a semester studying Christianity at rabbinical school in Brooklyn and thinks you know more than Christians? You have a very selective and distorted knowledge of Christianity.[/quote]

No. The Pharisees interpreted Leviticus differently than the Sadducees. The Pharisees saw certain paragraphs as allegorical, but they still considered themselves to be obeying it. The Reform Jews simply don’t obey it.

And no, Jesus never changed the kosher laws. So what if Jesus hung out with tax collectors and prostitutes?  Nothing in Leviticus forbids this. Priests hung out with prostitutes. They ministered to prostitutes. They did not have sex with the prostitutes.  Genesis is an origin story. Leviticus is not. [/quote]

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