Baal Shem Tov

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Shem Baal Tov was a Jewish Rabb in 1760 AD who had a Hebrew copy of the Gospel of Matthew.

His copy clears up something that has troubled me for many years. Yahshuah had only disdain for the scribes and the pharisees and priests, calling them robbers who had locked the door to the kingdom of Yah and ignored the true commandments of Yah in favor of man-,made commandments based on the cruel, money-centered traditions of the elders.

Having defined these rogues for us, suddenly in Matthew 23:2 he says,

""The teachers of the law (the scribes) and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat. So, you must obey them and do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach"

This troubled me for he is telling us to obey the teachings of the very guys he told us were robbers.

The Baal Shem Tov copy says "Do Not" obey them. This makes perfect sense to me. Upon further research it sounds like only Moses and the Messiah were ever allowed to sit in the seat of Moses which was not a real chair but an expression for one authorized by the father to guide his children.

So Yahshuah warns us that these men had usurped the seat of Moses and not to obey them or follow their behavior in any way shape or form.