“And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.”
When they come from the marketplace they do not eat unless they wash. And they observe many other traditions, such as the washing of cups, pitchers and kettles — the marketplace contact with Gentiles or non-observant Jews could create ritual impurity; the washing upon return is the decontamination ritual. The many other traditions suggest that the handwashing controversy is the representative case of a broader system of purity regulation that the Pharisees applied to everyday domestic life.
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