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The Mishnah wasn't written yet.it was an oral law... hence its not written in the Hebrew scriptures.
Its called the Mishnah. One sabbath law states this:
If a building fell down upon a man and there is doubt whether he is there or not, or whether he is alive or dead, or whether he is a gentile or an Israelite, they may clear away the ruin from above him. If they find him alive they may clear it away still more from above him; but if [he is] dead, they leave him.Tractate Yoma 8:7, The Mishnah, translated by Herbert Danby.
The Mishnah wasn't written yet.
I dont see what you quoted is relevant. A dead guy with a building on top of him is beyond help anyway. His problems are over.it was an oral law... hence its not written in the Hebrew scriptures.
Its called the Talmud. Its divided into two main sections: The Mishnah and theGemara. One sabbath law states this:
If a building fell down upon a man and there is doubt whether he is there or not, or whether he is alive or dead, or whether he is a gentile or an Israelite, they may clear away the ruin from above him. If they find him alive they may clear it away still more from above him; but if [he is] dead, they leave him.Tractate Yoma 8:7, The Mishnah, translated by Herbert Danby.
I dont see what you quoted is relevant. A dead guy with a building on top of him is beyond help anyway. His problems are over.
When I was a Seventh Day Adventist who kept the Sabbath, you were allow to work if your a doctor, nurse, ambulance driver, or fireman, or basically any job that was important for when life was involved. It wasn't violating the Sabbath it was something that just needed to be done. I think the story of Jesus is to show that we shouldn't make an idol of the Sabbath, if we do we then have it all wrong, the Sabbath is when we are One in God. If you are not One in God then you are trying to get through your life by the sweat of the brow, when we enter the Sabbath we are at peace, what we do on the outside is much easier than before, we are no longer groping in the darkness.
thats very insightful. It reminds me of the words of Jesus at Mark 2:23*Now it happened that he was proceeding through the grainfields on the sabbath, and his disciples started to make their way plucking the heads of grain. 24*So the Pharisees went saying to him: Look here! Why are they doing on the sabbath what is not lawful? ...27*So he went on to say to them: The sabbath came into existence for the sake of man, and not man for the sake of the sabbath; 28*hence the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath.
If you listen 23 minutes into this video you will see where I'm going with this. There was no law at that time. This guy is good but he rambles on alot.
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The Jewish Jesus and the Sabbath - YouTube
Yeah...there was jewish law that time.If you listen 23 minutes into this video you will see where I'm going with this. There was no law at that time. This guy is good but he rambles on alot.
Where is it written one can not heal on the Sabbath? I cant find it anyway in Jewish scripture.
The story is made up.I'm responding more to the thread title than to the OP.
It has not been my understanding (what I was taught) that Jesus broke the Sabbath. It is my understanding that he was accused of breaking the Sabbath, and that this story was a lesson about the purpose of the law being serving the well-being of the people -- and that the law does not require, nor should it be interpreted as so, that the letter of the law should ever be held above what is right and good to do in a particular real life situation.
To me it is not a story that disregards the law, but one that indicates if one is fully knowledgeable about the purpose of the law, one can understand the correct application of it -- and the greater good may be better served at times by not applying the letter of the law to a particular situation.
The story is made up.
Judaism has no such restriction.