The pietists and their affiliated groups who ultimately came to be subsumed under the general term of Pharisees, continued the tradition of Torah interpretation which ultimately came to be known as the Torah Shè-Be'al Pèh, the Oral Torah or Tradition of Interpretation. When citing a tradition which came to be enacted into law by the courts of the Pharisees; at first the Anshei Knesset Ha-Gedolah and later the Sanhedrin, those who expressed the majority opinion which became la