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Updated: 2018.06.15
Pᵊrūsh•imꞋ, pl. of פְּרוּשִׁי —
Transitive: a parser, one who parses (differentiates as distinct; distinguishes; explains or clarifies) Ha•vᵊdâl•âhꞋ; one who complies with Ha•vᵊdâl•âhꞋ; i.e. separates out or apart from,
Intransitive: someone or something parsed as distinct or distinguished apart or separate; discerned as Ha•vᵊdâl•âhꞋ compliant.
MH: a parsed "meaning; explanation, interpretation, gloss, annotation, comment, commentary." In fact, the English "parse" traces back "from Latin pars [meaning] 'a part, piece' " — likely to this Hebrew root!
Prior to B.C.E. 175, YᵊhūdꞋâh (Judaea/Judaean) was a unified, RabꞋi Hi•leilꞋ-like, inclusive-leaning, Ta•na"khꞋ-centric nation, infusing diverse genetic backgrounds, integrating diverse interpretations of Ta•na"khꞋ, and led by a benign—Ōs•inꞋ—Kō•heinꞋ ha-Jâ•dōlꞋ.
Betrayed by his own—Hellenist—brother in B.C.E. 175, however, this utopian leadership was inexorably undermined by the idolatrous Hellenist inroads of Syrian king Antiochus IV Epiphanes.
The Hellenist coup that ousted the Kō•heinꞋ ha-Jâ•dōlꞋ was backed by the newly Syrian-enthroned Hellenist "Temple High Priest" faction; an overwhelming majority comprising a mix of Hellenist kō•han•imꞋ and Hellenist Judaean aristocracy—calling themselves Tzᵊdoq•imꞋ.
The Syrian-empowered takeover by the Hellenist Tzᵊdoq•imꞋ, combined with the subsequent "parsing-out" of the lay "parsers" (Pᵊrush•imꞋ, later Hellenized in LXX, as Φαρισαῖος—"Pharisee"), eviscerated the previous Ōs•inꞋ faction; which, over the next three centuries, faded into oblivion.
It wasn't until the longstanding Judaic-Hellenist schism finally exploded in B.C.E. 175, however, that the Pᵊrush•imꞋ finally "parsed themselves apart" from the entitled priestly-aristocratic (Tzᵊdoq•imꞋ) class—introducing to the world their first reform: their newly-formed party's original first rabbis!
Lacking the Scriptural authority of the (rival Tzᵊdoq•imꞋ faction) kō•han•imꞋ, the first Pᵊrush•imꞋ rabbis instigated another reform: recognizing the authority—and retitling—earlier, non-kō•han•imꞋ religious leaders of Yi•sᵊr•â•eilꞋ as kinds of rabbis. Thus, from assimilated Babylonian "sages" back to Mōsh•ëhꞋ inclusive, all were retroactively retitled as kinds of "rabbis".
Accordingly, ca. B.C.E. , Mōsh•ëhꞋ certainly couldn't have been "Rab•einꞋū" (our Rabbi), more than a millennium before the first ever rabbi existted! Discerning from Scriptural descriptions of his office and actions, Mōsh•ëhꞋ Pᵊqid•einꞋū (our Pâ•qidꞋ) is most historically accurate.
Only after B.C.E.175 did the Pᵊrush•imꞋ even exist to ordain the first rabbis and first defy the Hellenist Tzᵊdoq•imꞋ, who were anchored in the "Temple", to begin establishing rival local Bât•eiꞋ ha-KᵊnësꞋët to enable local prayer patterned after, and competing with the liturgy of the newly-Hellenized Tzᵊdoq•imꞋ "Temple" in Yᵊru•shâ•laꞋyim.
Yet, although there were no synagogues before the founding of the Pᵊrush•imꞋ in B.C.E. 175, at least from the time when the A•rōnꞋ ha-Bᵊrit was lost, there certainly were structures dedicated to mi•dᵊrâshꞋ and tᵊphil•âhꞋ! Inept "scholars", who have conflated the structures with the anachronistic rabbinic nomenclature, have misled the masses. There were no synagogues before there were Pᵊrush•imꞋ and rabbis, in B.C.E. 176—and no "synagogues until the Pᵊrush•imꞋ assimilated, despite long resistance, a number of Tzᵊdoq•imꞋ Hellenist terminologies! Yet, this is only one of a number of assimilations through the millennia that need to be restored.
פְּרוּשִׁי derives from פָּרוּשׁ, passive participle of פָּרַשׁ, so named because, in B.C.E. 135, they פָּרוּשׁ from the rapidly Hellenizing Tzᵊdoq•imꞋ.
פְּרִישׁוּת — parsing-out, separation, departure; i.e. parsing Ha•vᵊdâl•âhꞋ
פָּרָשָׁה (pâ•râsh•âhꞋ, pl. פָּרָשׁוֹת (pâ•râsh•ōtꞋ), conn. -פָּרָשַׁת (pâ•râsh•atꞋ-…); parsed as distinct, separate (e.g., section or episode, pop. portion); formed from the root פָּרַשׁ (pâ•rashꞋ; to parse separate from, secede from, parse distinct and specific, exposit, elucidate, clarify).
The pâ•râsh•ōtꞋ Shâ•vuꞋa (or Si•dᵊr•ōtꞋ) are successive weekly portions of Tōr•âhꞋ, with associated Ha•phᵊtâr•âhꞋ selections from the Nᵊviy•imꞋ. Jews all over the world read the same pâ•râsh•âhꞋ on any given Shab•âtꞋ in every Beit ha-KᵊnësꞋët around the world.
פֵּירוּשׁ/פֵּירוּשָׁה (pei•rushꞋ/pei•rush•âhꞋ), m./f. n. — the product of logical parsing; i.e. logically distinguishing, separating, interpreting, clarifying.
פְּרוּשִׁים (Pᵊrush•imꞋ)
פַּרְשָׁנוּת (pa•rᵊsh•ân•ūtꞋ; exegesis, exegetics, exposition; critical interpretation that refines and clarifies a topic, separating wheat from chaff, gold from dross)
פַּרְשָׁן (pa•rᵊsh•ânꞋ, pl. פַּרְשָׁנִים); an exegete, expositor (modern "expert" or "pundit"); a mathematically-precise scientist-logician who refines, clarifies and explains a topic, separating wheat from chaff, gold from dross).
The Pᵊrush•imꞋ were the only one of the three 1st-century sects having RibꞋis and rabbis – forerunners of today's Tei•mân•iꞋ and moderate Orthodox rabbis. A priori, it is certain that RibꞋi (!) Yᵊho•shuꞋa was a פְּרוּשִׁי.
The reason that RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa incurred such wrath from the Hellenist pseudo-Tzᵊdoq•imꞋ Ko•han•eiꞋ hâ-RëshꞋa is because RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa was the most successful Pᵊrush•iꞋ, most effective in establishing and popularizing the practice of praying in local Bât•eiꞋ ha-KᵊnësꞋët among the masses – which was a religious, political and financial rival and threat to the Hellenist-Tzᵊdoq•imꞋ who, collaborating with the Hellenist Roman occupiers, controlled their Herod-built (Hellenist Tzᵊdoq•imꞋ priests') Hellenized (i.e., idolatrous-assimilated and adulterated) Beit ha-Mi•qᵊdâshꞋ ha-Shein•iꞋ. Because he was a religious, political and financial threat to their Hellenism and "Temple", they collaborated together to falsely smear RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa as a heretic who should be killed as an example to (vicarious sacrifice for) the rest of the Pᵊrush•imꞋ.
Interim centuries in Europe has evolved the descendants of the 1st century Hellenist Tzᵊdoq•imꞋ into today's "Ultra" Pᵊrush•imꞋ. These are greedy and parasitic, European Dark Ages oriented and garbed, off-the-rails, anti-science, anti-education, superstitious fanatics who advocate 1st century Tzᵊdoq•imꞋ Hellenism and promulgate the appalling 1st century Hellenist Tzᵊdoq•imꞋ kangaroo Beit Din defamation and lynching of that generation's most popular and famous RibꞋi.
In today's Israel these Tzᵊdoq•imꞋ-Hellenists in Pᵊrush•imꞋ clothing rely solely on goy•imꞋ Turk and British ordinations as Israel's Ra•bân•utꞋ and Chief Rabbis, to again lord over all Judaic rites including marriage, divorce, death conversions and "holy sites";
once again persecuting legitimate Pᵊrush•imꞋ – now globally. 
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