The Jewish Festival of Lights began tonight at sunset. The first people God spoke to were the Jews and He spoke in Hebrew. Rabbi Hillel (ca. 60 B.C.E. to ca. 10 C.E.) was a great Talmudic scholar whose work was summarized in one word: loving-kindness.
"A certain heathen came to him (Hillel) and said to him:
Convert me provided that you teach me the entire Torah
while I stand on one foot.
. . . Hillel. . . said to him:
What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor:
that is the entire Torah;
the rest is commentary;
go and learn it.
And Hillel said, "If I am not for myself, who then will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?"
-----The World's Wisdom, Philip Novak
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