When? If Not Now, WHEN???? See you at the Dr. Bernard Jensen Centennial Celebration June 6,7,8. Will you sit next to me????

Date:   5/1/2008 9:32:26 AM ( 16 y ago)

7:29 AM
May 1, 08

Here is a lovely song written by Old Friend Morris Walker.
It is sung by Lynn and Morris.

I am looking forward to them singing it at the Dr Bernard Jensen
Centennial Celebration June 6,7,8, at the Town and Country
Convention Center


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FLYER for Event June 6,7,8.
Please Circulate and Register Today.
Thanks,
Leslie
+Your EG

Register NOW here:

http://www.jensencelebration.com/contact.html



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From: stillpointcreations@yahoo.com
Subject: Hillel the Elder
Date: May 1, 2008 9:31:01 AM PDT
To: Plantyourdream@cox.net

You are tooooo much!
shalom
lynn

5:37 AM
Update
May 1, 08

Hillel the Elder

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillel_the_Elder


If I am not for myself
Who then is for me?
If I am for myself only
What then am I?
If not you, who?
If not now, when?
~Rabbi Hillel



Hillel (הלל) (born Babylon 1st
Century BCE - died circa 10[1] in Jerusalem, 1st
Century CE) was a famous Jewish religious leader, one
of the most important figures in Jewish history. He is
associated with the development of the Mishnah and the
Talmud. Renowned within Judaism as a sage and scholar,
he was the founder of the "Beit Hillel" ("House of
Hillel") school for Tannaïm (Sages of the Mishnah) and
the founder of a dynasty of Sages who stood at the
head of the Jews living in the land of Israel until
roughly the fifth century of the Common Era.
He is popularly known as the author of two sayings:
"If I am not for myself, who will be [for me]? And
when I am for myself, what am 'I'? And if not now,
when?"[2] and the expression of the ethic of
reciprocity, or "Golden Rule": "That which is hateful
to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole
Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn."

Hillel was born in Babylon, and according to the
Mishnah, he went to Jerusalem with the intention of
studying Biblical exposition and tradition. The
difficulties which Hillel had to overcome in order to
be admitted to the school of Sh'maya and Abtalion, and
the hardships he suffered while pursuing his aim, are
told in a touching passage (Talmud, tractate Yoma
35b), the ultimate purpose of which is to show that
poverty cannot be considered as an obstacle to the
study of Torah. Some time later, Hillel succeeded in
settling a question concerning the sacrificial ritual
in a manner which showed his superiority over the
reigning heads of the Sanhedrin. On that occasion, it
is narrated, they voluntarily resigned their position
as Nasi (President) in favor of Hillel, and thereafter
Hillel was recognized as the highest authority among
the Pharisees (predecessors to Rabbinic Judaism).

Hillel lived in Jerusalem during the time of King
Herod and the Roman Emperor Augustus. In the Midrash
compilation Sifre (Deut. 357) the periods of Hillel's
life are made parallel to those in the life of Moses.
Both lived 120 years; at the age of forty Hillel went
to the Land of Israel; forty years he spent in study;
and the last third of his life he was the spiritual
head of the Jewish people. A biographical sketch can
be constructed; that Hillel went to Jerusalem in the
prime of his life and attained a great age. His
activity of forty years likely covered the period of
30 BCE to 10 CE.





 

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