By Yair Sheleg : All-out confrontation
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Title: An excellent article, except for one point... Name: David Yashar City: Beachwood State: Ohio
...Today`s charedim are not like the Sadducees, the wealthy acculturated priests, but are more like the Essenes, those Jews who sought to distance themselves from the mainstream community by forming their own separatist groups in the desert. The result was a cult that disappeared as opposed to Pharisaic Judaism that became the Judaism of today.