 | Abba Solomon Eban - Jews - 1984 - 376 pages
...teach me the whole Torah while I stand on one foot, you can make me a Jew." The rabbi replied: "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. This is the whole Torah; the rest is commentary. Go and study." Hillel's version of the "golden rule" echoes the... | |
 | David Kraemer - Religion - 1990 - 234 pages
...that was in his hand. c. He came before Hillel [and said the same thing, and] he converted him. d. He said to him: "That which is hateful to you do not do to your fellow—this is the whole Torah and the rest is interpretation. Go and learn." [emphasis added] This... | |
 | Michael Rosenak - Jewish religious education - 1995 - 312 pages
...standing on one foot." He drove him away with the builder's measuring-stick which was in his hand. He came before Hillel, who converted him. Hillel said to him, "That which is hateful to you, do not do unto your fellow. This is the entire Torah; the rest is comment ary— go learn it." Once again, Shammai... | |
 | Alan M. Dershowitz - Religion - 2000 - 414 pages
...of the Torah to a skeptic in the time he could stand on one foot, the great scholar replied: "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor; this is the whole Torah. The rest is commentary; go and study." Micah summarized God's demand of Jews thus: "Only... | |
 | Larry Chouinard - Bible - 1997 - 524 pages
...other Jewish sources have expressed similar sentiments in a negative form (eg, Hillel's saying, "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor: this is the whole Torah while the rest is commentary on it," Babylon Talmud Sabbat 31a), Jesus' emphatic insistence... | |
 | Maureen Gallagher - Religion - 1998 - 244 pages
...another rabbi with the same question. The second rabbi summarized the meaning of the Torah as, "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. . .This is the whole Torah. All the rest is a commentary." This short story gets directly to the point and illustrates... | |
 | James L. Kugel - Reference - 1998 - 1092 pages
...them." — b. Shabbat 313 All the commandments that He gave to them are subsumed by this one word: That which is hateful to you do not do to your neighbor. — Ephraem, Commentary on Exodus 20:2 It may also be that one coupling of the "negative Golden Rule"... | |
 | Watson E. Mills, Roger Aubrey Bullard - Reference - 1990 - 1108 pages
...teach him the whole Law during the time in which he could stand on one leg. Hillel responded, "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. This is the whole Torah. All else is interpretation." (Sabb 31a) Such a principle commands one to avoid inflicting... | |
 | Ronald H. Isaacs - Religion - 1999 - 132 pages
...single life, it is as if that person had destroyed an entire world. (Mishneh Sanhedrin 37) 3. What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. This is the whole of Torah. All the rest is commentary. (Talmud Shabbat 31 a) 4. The person who truly loves another... | |
 | Michael Shapiro, Daniel Shapiro, Nancy Hartman - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 406 pages
...foot. If Hillel succeeded, the non-Jew would convert and become a true believer. Hillel replied, "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. This is the entire Torah. All the rest is commentary — now go and study it." Mark relates that the teacher Joshua, known to... | |
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That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. 
