Episode 18 – http:///www.matsati.com
Antimissionaries be like… Yeshua violated Shabbat… Helping others is of the greatest importance…
The Sages frequently use the verse from Hosea 6:6, that helping people was of greater importance than observing the rituals and customs (see the Talmud Sukkah 49b, Deuteronomy Rabba on 16:18, etc.). This is exactly what Yeshua did. In fact, they used the same examples Yeshua presented, David’s eating the bread of the presence in the Mishkhan and the Temple offerings made on the Shabbat, to demonstrate the same general principle, that the needs of life override the restrictions on the Shabbat (Y’lomm’denu, Yalkut II, par. 130, Tosefta Shabbat 15b).
