* 1901: Zamenhof publishes his ideas on a universal religion, based on the philosophy of Hillel the Elder.

Despite its fame, it was in this period that Rabbinical Judaism, led by Hillel the Elder, began to assume popular prominence over the Temple priesthood.

Besides his linguistic work, Zamenhof published a religious philosophy he called Homaranismo ( loosely translated as humanitarianism ), based on the principles and teachings of Hillel the Elder.

Hillel the Elder organized them into six orders to make it easier to remember.

* Hillel the Elder

* Hillel the Elder, Jewish scholar and Nasi of the Sanhedrin, in office c. 31 BC – 9 AD

* Hillel the Elder, Jewish rabbi

* Hillel the Elder, Jewish scholar and Nasi of the Sanhedrin, in office c. 31 BC – 9 AD

It also named as notable influences the religious and spiritual teachings of Henry David Thoreau, Hillel the Elder, Jesus, Buddha, St. Francis of Assisi, Gandhi, and J. R. R.

A classic articulation of the Golden Rule came from the first century Rabbi Hillel the Elder.

The definition of Hillel the Elder in his interview with a would-be convert ( Talmud, tractate Shabbat 31a ), embodies in the golden rule the one fundamental article of faith.

The Pharisaic attitude is perhaps best exemplified by a story about Hillel the Elder, who lived at the end of the 1st century BCE.

Summaries of the principles by which Torah can be interpreted date back at least to Hillel the Elder, although the thirteen principles set forth in the Baraita of Rabbi Ishmael are perhaps the best known.

The ancient Jewish sage Hillel the Elder is said to have wrapped meat from the Paschal lamb and bitter herbs between two pieces of old-fashioned soft matzah, flat, unleavened bread, during Passover in the manner of a modern sandwich wrap made with flatbread.

; 10 CE: Hillel the Elder, considered the greatest Torah sage, dies, leading to the dominance of Shammai till 30, see also Hillel and Shammai.

After the time of Hillel the Elder ( late 1st century BC and early 1st century AD ), the Nasi was almost invariably a descendant of Hillel.

* Micha Goodman, Hillel the Elder meets Ahad Ha ' am, Eretz Acheret Magazine

Hillel the Elder the elder formulated the Golden rule of Jewish ethics: " What is hateful to you, do not do unto others.

He is sometimes confused with Hillel the Elder, as the Talmud sometimes simply uses the name " Hillel ".

* Hillel the Elder

A classic articulation of the Golden Rule ( see above ) came from the first century Rabbi Hillel the Elder.

Two notable books addressed the relations between contemporary Judaism and Christianity, Abba Hillel Silver's Where Judaism Differs and Leo Baeck's Judaism and Christianity, both motivated by an impulse to clarify Judaism's distinctiveness " in a world where the term Judeo-Christian had obscured critical differences between the two faiths.

The Targum of the Prophets was composed by Jonathan ben Uzziel under the guidance of Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi ( Jonathan b. Uzziel was a disciple of Hillel, so he had traditions handed down from them-Maharsha ), and the land of Israel quaked over an area of four hundred parasangs by four hundred parasangs, and a Bath Kol ( heavenly voice ) came forth and exclaimed, Who is this that has revealed My secrets to mankind?

After Menahem the Essene had resigned the office of Av Beit Din ( or vice-president ) of the Sanhedrin, Shammai was elected to it, Hillel being at the time president.

However, since the Hebrew calendar was based on witnesses ' testimony, that had become far too dangerous to collect, Hillel II recommended change to a mathematically based calendar that was adopted at a clandestine, and maybe final, meeting in 358.

The difficulties Hillel had to overcome to gain admittance 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.

Kiedis later described the experience in his autobiography Scar Tissue: " Within a few minutes of hanging out with Hillel, I sensed that he was absolutely different from most of the people I'd spent time with ... He understood a lot about music, he was a great visual artist, and he had a sense of self and a calm about him that were just riveting.

Once discovered and published in 1922, the exilarch's letter proved beyond doubt that almost five hundred years after R. Yose and ' Hillel the Patriarch ', then fixed calendar in its present-day form had still not been instituted.

After he had studied under Hirsh Darshan, Hillel went to Vilna, where from 1650 to 1651 he was a member of the rabbinical college.

Kiedis later described the experience in his autobiography Scar Tissue: " Within a few minutes of hanging out with Hillel, I sensed that he was absolutely different from most of the people I'd spent time with ... He understood a lot about music, he was a great visual artist, and he had a sense of self and a calm about him that were just riveting.

Kiedis commented on the situation: " I could tell that Hillel had no inner core of strength ; he had been robbed by his addiction of the life force that allows you to at least defend yourself.

He had determined to go to Rome, but stopped short in Capua, where during the early 1260s he devoted himself with passionate zeal to the study of philosophy and of the Moreh Nebhukhin ( Guide for the Perplexed ) of Maimonides, under the tutelage of a philosopher and physician named Hillel — probably the well-known Hillel ben Samuel ben Eliezer of Verona.

The " Bergson Group " led by Hillel Kook was the most vocal group of activists calling for rescue, had considerable support in Congress and Senate as well from Eleanor Roosevelt and prepared the ground for Roosevelt's eventual decision.

His marriage to a non-Jew is contrary to orthodox Jewish religious law, although he and his family had been active members of the Harvard Hillel Orthodox minyan.

In the prospective cohort study, the researchers, including lead author Hillel Alpert, research scientist at HSPH, and co-author Lois Biener of the University of Massachusetts Boston Center for Survey Research, followed 787 adult smokers in Massachusetts who had recently quit smoking.

Before coming to Stanford, Karlin-Neumann had been a Hillel director and chaplain at UCLA and Claremont College, a rabbi in Alameda, California, and was active in Reform Judaism.

Jews were able to gain a foothold in the new field of finance by providing these services: as non-Catholics, they were not bound by the ecclesiastical prohibition against " usury "; and in terms of Judaism itself, Hillel had long ago re-interpreted the Torah's ban on charging interest.

HAFTR was established in 1978 as the result of a merger between two schools on the South Shore of Long Island: The Hebrew Institute of Long Island ( HILI ) in Far Rockaway, Queens, which had served the Rockaway and Five Towns community since 1936 ; and the Hillel School, which was founded in Lawrence in 1957.

Some scholars feel that under the liberal divorce policy of Hillel men had been marrying woman and then casually divorcing them after they lost interest, deeply injuring the women.

In mentioning these characteristics, which the Haggadah attributes to Moses ' brother, Hillel stated his own prominent virtues.

In Avot, Hillel stated " If I am not for myself, who will be?

Asked for a summary of the Jewish religion in the " while standing on one leg " meaning in the most concise terms, Hillel stated: " That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow.

Cohn stated: “ In making this gift, I was thinking about three things: How to celebrate the milestone birthdays of both my mother and my father who were turning 75 ; how I could give back to Northeast Ohio where I have my roots ; and what organization would be meaningful to my family both now and in the future .” It is the first Hillel building built directly on the campus of a state university.