violate scriptural Mitzvot, nor did he have any major differences with accepted Pharisaic Sabbath keeping.1 Indeed, Kohler suggested that the whole Sabbath conflict regarding Yeshua could be understood in light of the arguments of Rabbi Hillel with Rabbi Shammai concerning how to correctly fulfill the Sabbath Mitzvot. One of the most influential Second Temple period scholars of our time, Shmuel Safrai, noted that Yeshua kept the Sabbath fully according to the halakhah of his day. Commenting upon
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