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unusual facts about Hillel the Elder



Bnei Bathyra

A hundred year before the Destruction of the Second Temple, the family's sages have passed the torch of the Jewish leadership to Hillel the Elder, that made Aliya to the Land of Israel from Babylon and had studied at Sh'maya and Abtalion.

Ezekiel Isaac Malekar

“According to Rabbi sic Hillel, the Torah can be capsulated into only one commandment: ‘What is hurtful and hateful to you, do not do to another.’ Everything else is footnote.”


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Menahem the Essene

The Mishnah, Tractate "Hagigah" 16b, cites that he "went forth out", and as a result of that he was replaced by Shammai, that became from that point on the "Pair" mate of Hillel the Elder.