Subject: Re: SANHEDRIN COURT
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 23:47:51 +0000
To: "Hebraic Heritage Newsgroup"<heb_roots_chr@geocities.com>

From:   Gene Rosinbaum
To:        heb_roots_chr@geocities.com
Subject: Sanhedrin Court

>
> dear sir,
>
>     I'm a 53 yr.old baptist pastor and new to the internet.your work
> is  such a blessing to me and my church here in pine mt. valley, ga. please
> send me any information on the sanhedrin as far as the requirements for
> membership. aslo was paul atually a member? any thing you could do to
> help me out will be appreciated.
>
>                                                  your brother in christ,
>                                                  bro. gene rosinbaum
> 
> 

From: Messianic Rabbi Michael Silver
To:      heb_roots_chr@geocities.com
Subject: SanHedrin Court


REPLY: The special qualifications for the office of Sanhedrist,
mentioned in the Rabbinical writings are as follows: A member of the
Sanhedrim must be wise, modest, God-fearing, truthful, not greedy of
filthy lucre, given to hospitality, kindly, not a gambler, nor a ususer,
nor one who traded in the produce of Sabbatical years, nor yet one who
indulged in unlawful games (Sanh. iii. 3). They were called "Sekenim,"
"elders", "Memunim," "rulers", "Parnasin," "feeders, overseers,
shepherds of the flock", and "Manhigei," "guides". They were under the
presidency and supreme rule of an "Archisynagogos," or
"Rosh-ha-Cheneseth," "head of the synagogue" (Yom. vii. 1; Sot. vii. 7),
who sometimes seems to have even exercised sole authority. 

For more on this subject you can read 'Sketches of Jewish Social Life'
by Alfred Edersheim (a Jewish believer in the 1800's in Germany).

As to Paul being a member, I think that we need to keep this one
description in mind of a Sanhedrim member, "elder". In Jewish life an
elder was literally an elder. One was was older and wiser. With age
comes wisdom was the thing then not now. They cherished the elders in
the Oriental culture. We back them off to nursing homes in the west. It
takes time to gain wisdom.

I hope that I have shed some light.

In Mashiach,

Rabbi Mordecai
-- 
Rabbi Michael Silver (Rebbe Mordecai Ben-Baruch)
Etz Chayim - Tree of Life Messianic Jewish Congregation
P.O. Box 364, Organ, NM 88052 (near sunny Las Cruces)
Phone or Fax: 505-382-0193
e-mail: treelife@bigfoot.com or treelife@zianet.com
http://www.zianet.com/treelife

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