- The Pharisees (/‘f�r?si?z/; Hebrew: ???????????, romanized: P?ru�im, lit.?‘separated ones’) were a Jewish social movement and school of thought in the Levant during the time of Second Temple Judaism. Following the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD, Pharisaic beliefs became the foundational, liturgical, and ritualistic basis for Rabbinic Judaism. Although the group no longer exists, their traditions are of great importance for the manifold Jewish religious movements.
And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:18 KJV