This is a study of Paul's life and what he taught in his letters to the Gentiles. Paul was born a Jew from the tribe of Benjamin. He studied the Pharisaic perspective of Torah in Jerusalem from his teacher Gamaliel who was the grandson of Hillel. The school of Hillel was one of the primary sects of the Pharisees. Paul was taught from the Pharisees that the proper way to follow the Torah was to follow the decrees and rulings of the rabbis. The rabbinical decrees and rulings are called the 'oral torah' or the 'tradition of the elders.' The rabbis put following the 'oral law' above the written torah. Initially, Paul persecuted believers in Yeshua as the Messiah who he viewed as heretics of the Torah.