Core values are important and not petty observances

Judeans adhered to some strict rules such as washing hands before one eats; taking bath after one comes back from a market place and so on.


So when some of Yeshua’s disciples did not seem to follow these rules, these traditionals took serious objection.

But Yeshua brushed aside their objections by saying

“There is nothing outside of a man that enters into him that can defile him; the thing that proceeds from him, that is what defiles the man.”

What Yeshua was suggesting was

“Because, what one eats does not enter his heart, but his belly, and is discharged by excretion.

But the thing that proceeds from the heart is the one that defiles the man.

For from within the heart proceed evil ideas, adultery, fornication, theft, murder, greed, wickedness, deceit, harlotry, an evil eye, blasphemy, boasting, senselessness.

All these evils proceed from within and defile a man.”

Introduction

The Holy Gospel Preaching of Mark (chapter 7)