Hillel wrote a commentary to Midrash Sifra in which he often quotes Rashi and Isaac ben Melchizedek ; he also wrote a commentary to Midrash Sifre.

After marrying his American-born wife, Masha Lipshitz, in Warsaw, Poland, in 1932, the couple spent about a year in Palestine where Hutner completed his research and writing of his Kovetz Ha ' aros on Hillel ben Eliakim's commentary on midrash sifra.

He visited Europe in 1934 to collate manuscripts of Hillel ben Eliakim's commentary.

Hillel was the author of an important work entitled Bet Hillel, a commentary and novellæ on the four parts of the Shulkhan Arukh, an important code of Jewish law.

This is a reference to the disagreement between two rabbinical schools of thought — the House of Hillel and the House of Shammai — on the proper order in which to light the Hanukkah flames.

Hillel argued in favor of starting with one candle and lighting an additional one every night, up to eight on the eighth night.

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

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.

Another influential medieval Halakhic work following the order of the Babylonian Talmud, and to some extent modelled on Alfasi, was " the Mordechai ", a compilation by Mordechai ben Hillel ( c. 1250 – 1298 ).

In the early 1980s, when speaking at Oberlin College Hillel, Susannah Heschel was introduced to an early feminist Haggadah that suggested adding a crust of bread on the seder plate, as a sign of solidarity with Jewish lesbians ( as some would say there's as much room for a lesbian in Judaism as there is for a crust of bread on the seder plate ).

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

Karaite Jews also maintain that Rabbinic Jews are not observing Jewish holy days on their correct date, because the dates are fixed according to the pre-calculated Hillel II calendar, instead of beginning each month with the sighting of the New Moon from the horizon of Israel, and starting the year during the month when the barley reaches the stage of Aviv in the land of Israel.

Jesus ' emphasis on loving one's neighbor ( see Great Commandment ), for example, echoes the teaching of the school of Hillel.

The church received a minor vindication of its position when, in denying a request for fees by the dissidents ' attorney, Hillel Chodos, the Second Court of Appeals overturned the decision on procedural grounds and added as dicta, " We are of the opinion that the underlying action the State-imposed receivership and its attendant provisional remedy of receivership were from the inception constitutionally infirm and predestined to failure.

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.

You can also find shlichim on U. S. college campuses in organizations like Hillel or active in youth organizations.

Nahalat Yehuda ( on the northernmost tip of Rishon ); Neve Hillel ; Bnot Hayil ; Abramovich ; Katzenelson ; Remez ( Giv ' at Levinson ), on the southwestern tip of old Rishon ; Rishonim ( Gan Nahum ), to the east of Remez

Hillel was born in Babylon and, according to the Iggeret of Rav Sherira Gaon ( a comprehensive history of the composition of the Talmud from the 10th century CE ), Hillel descended from the Tribe of Benjamin on his father's side, and from the family of David on his mother's side.

* June 25 – Hillel Slovak, Israeli-American guitarist ( Red Hot Chili Peppers ) ( b. 1962 )

Hillel Slovak ‏() ( April 13, 1962 – June 25, 1988 ) was an Israeli-American musician best known as the original guitarist and founding member of the Los Angeles rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers.

When childhood friend and bandmate Hillel Slovak died of a heroin overdose on June 25, 1988, Irons left the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Abba Hillel Silver was a leading proponent of Zionism in America, meeting with President Truman several times until his bombastic manner caused friction, leading to alienation with the White House and him being barred from further meetings and appearing on national television to announce to Americans the advancement of Israel.

* Columbia / Barnard Hillel, a Jewish student organization at Columbia University

By contrast, Rabbinic Judaism subsequently took the opposite view, espoused by Hillel, the leader of the other major Pharisee school of thought at the time ; in Hillel's view, men were allowed to divorce their wives for any reason.

* the Seven Rules of Hillel ( baraita at the beginning of Sifra ; Ab.

* the Thirteen Rules of R. Ishmael ( baraita at the beginning of Sifra ; this collection is merely an amplification of that of Hillel )

Thus, Hillel called attention to seven commonly used in the interpretation of laws ( baraita at the beginning of Sifra ); R. Ishmael, thirteen ( baraita at the beginning of Sifra ; this collection is largely an amplification of that of Hillel ).

This follows the tradition of Hillel, who did the same at his Seder table 2000 years ago ( except that in Hillel's day the Paschal sacrifice, matzo, and maror were eaten together.

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.

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.

Renowned within Judaism as a sage and scholar, he was the founder of the 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.

34: 7 ), and 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.

According to the Mishnah Hillel went to Jerusalem with the intention of studying Biblical exposition and tradition at the age of 40 in 70 BCE.

Some time later, Hillel succeeded in settling a question concerning the sacrificial ritual in a manner that showed his superiority over the Benei Betheira ( literally, sons of Betheira ), who were at that time the heads of the Sanhedrin.

Hillel was the head of the great school, at first associated with Menachem, a scholar mentioned in no other connection, afterward with Shammai, Hillel's peer in the teaching of Jewish Law.

Presume neither the Dehiyya Molad Zaqen nor the Dehiyya Lo Adu Rosh ( at least for yom Shlishi ) were being implemented by the Calendrical Court in Israel as certainly was the case at the time of Hillel II.

On another occasion at Kabul they were about to bathe together when the people informed them that they did not consider it moral for brothers to bathe together: Hillel and his brother thereupon desisted.

Some credit Hillel, and not his better-known namesake, with the authorship of the following maxims: " Separate not thyself from the community "; " Be not confident in thyself until the day of thy death "; " Condemn not thy neighbor until thou hast been placed in his condition "; " Use no unintelligible expressions assuming that ultimately they will be understood "; " Say not ' When I have leisure I shall study ': thou mayest never be at leisure " ( Ab.

Though support for independent student initiatives was scarce — as all communal funding for U. S. Jewish students was already earmarked for Hillel — by early 1968 WUJS branches were beginning to function in California and

Jesus ' second commandment ( known as the Great Commandment of the Hebrew Bible ) echoes the principle of Hillel, one of the most important Pharisees in the decades prior to Jesus ' birth.