Pharisaism in the modern sense is a synonym for hypocrisy and hypocrisy. Not every person in whose vocabulary has the given word knows the history of its origin. And it originates in ancient Judea.
The Pharisee sect appeared in the II century BC. Some Jews, who disagree with certain provisions of the doctrine of the doctrine of Judaism, created their own religious and philosophical schools. At first, the word "Pharisee", literally meaning "separated, " was an offensive nickname. But over time, it began to be pronounced with respect. The Pharisees saw the way to the salvation of their people through the veneration of all traditions, observance of the rites passed from generation to generation - the "oral law", contrasting themselves with the law written in the Torah.
By the time of Jesus Christ, it was a powerful sect, but the movement was already degenerating - the Pharisees became fanatics and casuists. Jesus discussed a lot with them. He denounced the Pharisees in preaching that they themselves did not fulfill, believing themselves to be righteous. In chapter 12 of the Gospel of Luke, Jesus equates Pharisaism with hypocrisy: "Meanwhile, when thousands of people gathered together, so that they crowded each other, He began to say first to His disciples: beware of the leaven of Pharisees, which is hypocrisy." In fact, the modern understanding of Pharisaism is mainly based on these words. Ironically, Christianity, once reproached to all hypocrites, in the Middle Ages became the dominant religion in Europe and itself acquired a Pharisee character, resulting in the phenomenon of the Reformation, which denied the formalism, external piety and hypocrisy of the ministers of the Catholic Church.
At present, Pharisaism is a formal moral approach, a negative quality of personality characterized by hypocrisy and hypocrisy. Its essence consists in rigorous, but not true, but ostentatious, formal execution of the rules of morality. In the Pharisee understanding, morality boils down to blindly following a ritual that has already lost its true background. Pharisaism, as the personification of external morality, is opposed by internal morality and personal beliefs.
