Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Lurking Libertarian
Hillel replied, "what is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor: this is the essence of the Torah; all the rest is commentary. Now go and study it."

He pretty muched nailed it, didn't he? LOL

He was accurate though, as Jesus did the same thing when he condensed the 613 commandments into two with "Love G-d with all your heart, mind, and soul--and Love your neighbor as yourself."

34 posted on 11/06/2001 11:16:29 AM PST by JMJ333
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies ]


To: JMJ333
He was accurate though, as Jesus did the same thing when he condensed the 613 commandments into two with "Love G-d with all your heart, mind, and soul--and Love your neighbor as yourself."

I mentioned the Hillel quote, because he lived shortly before Jesus and the school he founded was still flourishing, so Jesus would likely have been familiar with Hillel and his teachings. There is a similar Talmudic passage from shortly after the time of Jesus (around the year 100), in which Rabbi Akiba and Rabbi Tarphon debated which single verse in the Bible was the most important; Akiba argued for Leviticus 19:18 ("love your neighbor as yourself"), and Tarphon for Genesis 5:1 ("God created man in the image of God").

66 posted on 11/06/2001 12:13:31 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies ]

To: JMJ333
It would be interesting to compare and contrast the meaning of the word 'neighbor' in the Jewish and Christian faiths. Care to give it a shot?
93 posted on 11/06/2001 1:38:56 PM PST by AshleyMontagu
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson