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Dec. 20th, 2007 09:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mrphQuoted from Karen Armstrong's The Bible: The Biography...
Not a message that's unique to Judaism or Hillel, of course. But one that's worth quoting now and again. If only for the "on one leg" bit.
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.'
Not a message that's unique to Judaism or Hillel, of course. But one that's worth quoting now and again. If only for the "on one leg" bit.
