The pernicious tendency of these traditions is very strikingly illustrated, in one of our Lord’s discourses...
Well maybe he didn't, but Augie, a two-year-old greater Swiss mountain dog, did eat $400.
Alfred Edersheim wrote a major life of Christ called "The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah." Edersheim's Jewish heritage gave him interesting insights into many of the beliefs and ways of life during the time of Christ. In his book (Vol.11, p.12), he wrote of the Jewish traditions concerning the defilement of hands and the accusation that Jesus did not keep these traditions (as recorded in Mark 7:1-9).
