While, they are not modern or medieval Jews, they're still in the beginning days of Rabbinical Judaism. Where sex in marriage is a mitzvah.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @Bitchpuddingpie and
Yeshuah himself would have been a rabbi in good standing, which makes it likely he was married.
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Right. The purity of no-sex is... not Jewish. It's Greek via Greek philosophers who thought women were gross and were into homosexuality
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @loudpenitent and
The Greek influence on Christianity, and my hatred of all of the Big 3 Greek Philosophers, is what made me abandon any allegiance to it
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Tbf the purity thing isn't so much "non-Jewish" as from another branch of Judaism
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
The Essenes were known by the Jews of the time as the weird purity ascetics who eschewed marriage, washed themselves ritually, etc
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
John the Baptist in the Gospels is sort of an archetypal Essene and Jesus comes off as a heterodox populist version of their beliefs
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The impression I usually get is more that he's a follower in the tradition of Hillel.
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OK, baby-Jew question here: what is Hillel historically? I just know their campus synagogues are common
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Rabbi Hillel said a lot of Jesus' quotes before Jesus did
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Oh dear. What denomination are Ivanka/Kushner anyway? I assume not Orthodox? Conservative I guess?
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