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For the most part rabbis hailed from the ranks of ordinary folk
In the centuries prior to Jesus’s time, certain men distinguished themselves by their earnest desire to study and teach the Torah. In Jesus’s day, a person would honor one of these learned men by addressing him as “my master,” which in Hebrew is rabbi. Some decades after Jesus’s time, this became a formal title, and these teachers became known as “the rabbis.” For the most part these teachers did not hail from wealthy or priestly classes, but from the ranks of ordinary folk.…
Lifes supreme achievement is to be a scholar of the scriptures
In Jesus’s time and throughout the ages, the Jewish people believed that becoming a great scholar of the Scriptures represented life’s supreme achievement.