Okay Arimathea

I forget

Anybody knows ?

I didn't even know Joseph of Armiathea was a pharisee

Wasn't he?

i don't think so lol

he was just some rich guy

https://www.gotquestions.org/Joseph-of-Arimathea.html

So sort of???

The Sanhedrin wasn't the Pharisees

Just a council of religious leaders.

Well I always understood them to be Priests

Then maybe just a plain wealthy rabbi.

But I guess just a general "Temple Authority"

Weren't the pharisees a specific order of priest tho?

pharisees weren't priests they were rabbi

*I'm in over my head.*

rabbi's were/are teachers of the faith

the priests actually performed sacrifice

Time to dig around Jewish religious structure.

pharisees and sadducees were two orders of rabbi's that held different doctrines and are both mentioned in the gospel

Were there any more of these orders?

i think so yeawh

i think there were like 3 dominant ones

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11789b.htm

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13323a.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohen

and here's those priests

So the Sanhedrin was just like a judicial council, then?

```"The supreme council and court of justice among the Jews. The name Sanhedrin is derived originally from the Greek word sunédrion, which, variously modified, passed at an unknown period into the Aramaic vocabulary. Among the Greek-speaking Jews, gerousía, "the assembly of the Ancients" was apparently the common name of the Sanhedrin, at least in the beginning; in post-Biblical Hebrew the appellation Beth-Din, "house of judgment", seems to have been quite popular."```

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13444a.htm

Much obliged.

Also, does it make any difference in the potency of a blessing of a particular medallion or crucifix, like a Saint Benedict's crucifix if I get it blessed by a plain priest rather than a Benedictine priest?

no

you can find the specific blessing and get them to do it because most priests probably won't know it

Alright, just checking, because I've heard stuff from hyper traditionalists, and sedevecantists that are kinda' against getting things like that blessed by anything less than the actual priest of that medallion's order.

i've never heard of such a thing

Thanks anyhow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Xfqz1PKT8&t=1499s

Like do they have a reason for it or is it just "mer the words of some obscure clergyman 600 years ago"

No, I think their excuse is that "You couldn't do it before the 1960s, and that's when all the corruption happened and stuff, so the blessing is rendered null."