I ' m definitely guilty of being an obsessed fangirl in the adrenalinearound the fur days . Over the years I ' ve learned to appreciate how bad ass each member is . Abe is a phenomenal drummer and Chi was amazing . Frank gets the least love out of everyone but even he has his part in making them the greatest band ever . <| sep |> even though the reality is that both machines have exactly the same chance of winningto be fair iirc they actually used to work that way , and a payout linked to the coins it ate meant jackpot was better on losing machines <| sep |> this is interesting as hell actually . deportation and exile of an unknown number of Jews of the ancient Kingdom of Judah to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar II , starting with the first deportation in 597 BCE and continuing after the fall of Jerusalem and destruction of the Temple in 587 BCE , resulted in dramatic changes to Jewish culture and religion . During the 70 year exile in Babylon , Jewish houses of assembly known in Hebrew as a beit knesset or in Greek as a synagogue and houses of prayer Hebrew Beit Tefilah Greek , proseuchai were the primary meeting places for prayer , and the house of study beit midrash was the counterpart for the synagogue . In 539 BCE the Persians conquered Babylon , and in 537 BCE Cyrus the Great allowed Jews to return to Judea and rebuild the Temple . He did not , however , allow the restoration of the Judean monarchy , which left the Judean priests as the dominant authority . Without the constraining power of the monarchy , the authority of the Temple in civic life was amplified . It was around this time that the Sadducee party emerged as the party of priests and allied elites . However , the Second Temple , which was completed in 515 BCE , had been constructed under the auspices of a foreign power , and there were lingering questions about its legitimacy . This provided the condition for the development of various sects or schools of thought , each of which claimed exclusive authority to represent Judaism , and which typically shunned social intercourse , especially marriage , with members of other sects . In the same period , the council of sages known as the Sanhedrin may have codified and canonized the Hebrew Bible Tanakh , from which , following the return from Babylon , the Torah was read publicly on marketdays . The Temple was no longer the only institution for Jewish religious life . After the building of the Second Temple in the time of Ezra the Scribe , the houses of study and worship remained important secondary institutions in Jewish life . Outside of Judea , the synagogue was often called a house of prayer . While most Jews could not regularly attend the Temple service , they could meet at the synagogue for morning , afternoon and evening prayers . On Mondays , Thursdays and Shabbats , a weekly Torah portion was read publicly in the synagogues , following the tradition of public Torah readings instituted by Ezra . Although priests controlled the rituals of the Temple , the scribes and sages , later called rabbis Heb . Teachermaster , dominated the study of the Torah . These sages maintained an oral tradition that they believed had originated at Mount Sinai alongside the Torah of Moses a Godgiven interpretation of the Torah . The Hellenistic period of Jewish history began when Alexander the Great conquered Persia in 332 BCE . The rift between the priests and the sages developed during this time , when Jews faced new political and cultural struggles . After Alexander ' s death in 323 BCE , Judea was ruled by the EgyptianHellenic Ptolemies until 198 BCE , when the SyrianHellenic Seleucid Empire , under Antiochus III , seized control . Then , in 167 BCE , the Seleucid king Antiochus IV invaded Judea , entered the Temple , and stripped it of money and ceremonial objects . He imposed a program of forced Hellenization , requiring Jews to abandon their own laws and customs , thus precipitating the Maccabean Revolt . Jerusalem was liberated in 165 BCE and the Temple was restored . In 141 BCE an assembly of priests and others affirmed Simon Maccabeus as high priest and leader , in effect establishing the Hasmonean dynasty . look , i ' m not a jewish historian . i cannot sit here and pretend to know when which group developed where necessarily . it seems like the rifts that occure happen due to foriegn intervention . it also seems like the concept of a sanhedrine was not fully accepted until much later than I had stupidly . totally my bad assumed was the case . so , hey , as far as I am concerned you are right about this . im sure if someone wanted to they could try to make an argument regarding the timeline of events . but thats not my bag . here is what I find interesting though albeit unrelated somewhatThe Sadducees rejected the Oral Law as proposed by the Pharisees . Rather , they saw the Torah as the sole source of divine authority . The written law , in its depiction of the priesthood , corroborated the power and enforced the hegemony of the Sadducees in Judean society . According to Josephus , the Sadducees believed that There is no fate God does not commit evil Man has free will man has the free choice of good or evil The soul is not immortal there is no afterlife , andThere are no rewards or penalties after death is this ? do other jews accept that god committed evil ? do you know anything about this ?