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WT Sharpe · 12-16-2010, 10:03 AM

.....It was said that one day a pagan had approached Hillel and promised to convert to Judaism if he could summarize the entire Torah while he stood on one leg. Standing on one leg, Hillel replied: 'What is hateful to yourself, do not to your fellow man. That is the whole of the Torah and the remainder is but commentary. Go study it."
..........— Karen Armstrong (1944 - ), British thinker and author of books on religion. The Bible: A Biography (2007). Hillel (הלל) (ca. 110BCE - died 10CE) was a Jewish religious teacher and one of the leaders of the Pharisees, a sect that preceded present-day Rabbinic Judaism.

12-16-2010, 10:03 AM	#993
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	.....It was said that one day a pagan had approached Hillel and promised to convert to Judaism if he could summarize the entire Torah while he stood on one leg. Standing on one leg, Hillel replied: 'What is hateful to yourself, do not to your fellow man. That is the whole of the Torah and the remainder is but commentary. Go study it." ..........— Karen Armstrong (1944 - ), British thinker and author of books on religion. *The Bible: A Biography* (2007). Hillel (הלל) (ca. 110BCE - died 10CE) was a Jewish religious teacher and one of the leaders of the Pharisees, a sect that preceded present-day Rabbinic Judaism.