But Thomas the fact is that it was NOT a rule.

The rule didn't come about until after the fall of the second Temple so whoever wrote this in the GT put in a fake story that couldn't have happened.

Washing of the hands was a ritual only of the priests in the Temple in Jsus' supposed life time. The story is an obvious later insertion by people who didn't realize that in Jsus' time it wasn't a minhag.


And everything that Sarah tells you, listen to her voice. Genesis, 21:12