[Vision2020] Just for you Tom

[Art Deco]

Perhaps Nick G. can educate Phil on the origin of the "Golden Rule".

Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)
deco at moscow.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Nisbet" <pcnisbet1 at hotmail.com>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 9:44 PM
Subject: [Vision2020] Just for you Tom


> "If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for 
> myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?"
>
> Hillel the Elder (Pirkei Avot 1:14)  Babylonian Talmud circa 5 B.C.E.
>
> The paraphrased version simply removes the initial statements and uses the 
> later statement "And if not now, when?"  without it original context.  You 
> Xtians have been doing that sort of thing for centuries.
>
> Another example?
>
> "What is hateful to thee, do not unto thy fellow man: this is the whole 
> Law; the rest is mere commentary"   Hillel the Elder (Shab. 31a) 
> Babylonian Talmud
>
> Your guy Jesus high graded that and turned it into your Golden Rule.
>
> Or Maybe you would like
>
> "Judge not thy neighbor till thou art in his place" Hillel the Elder (Avot 
> ii. 4)
>
> Hillel was the founder of Rabbinic Judaism and wrote from 30 BCE until his 
> death in 10 CE.
>
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