text: Jesus didn't defend Moses, He overruled him. Interesting creative reinterpretation of the Scripture passage, but Jesus told the Pharisees that Moses was pandering to the hardness of hearts of the Israelites by letting them divorce their wives by allowing them to ignore the truth of marriage as it was from the beginning, that a man leaves his father and mother to cling to his wife and the two become one flesh, and that what God has joined let no man put asunder. No, this is no mere "ideal". Jesus restored what Moses obscured for expediency.