During the few remaining years of the tiny and riven province the Pharisees once more revised ―the Law,‖ those ―commandments of men‖ which Jesus had most scathingly attacked. Dr. Kastein says, ―Jewish life was regulated by the teachings of the Pharisees; the whole history of Judaism was reconstructed from the Pharisaic point of view … Pharisaism shaped the character of Judaism and the life and the thought of the Jew for all the future…. It makes ‗separatism‘ its chief characteristic.‖
