Life loses its freedom and religion loses its spirituality when ritual controls rather than enriches every part of human existence. Now, in the third step, good intentions are overbalanced by mixed motives and bad results. Someplace in the process, the spirit of God’s Law is replaced by a ritual that confuses the cleanness of hands with the purity of heart. Jesus takes up the Pharisees’ accusation at this point. Whereas they infer that His disciples are sinners because they eat with unwashed hands,