Shacklah Vetariah: A non Jew once came to the great sage Hillel saying, "I wish to convert on the condition that you teach me the entire Torah 'while I stand on one foot' - 'in a very short time'." Hillel accepted him as a convert and then told him, "What is hateful to you do not do to others, this is the entire Torah, everything else is commentary, go and learn."
Talmud, Shabbat 31a
Memrah: Rabbi Jake Blackbaum of Bavel 2nd generation says we learn from what Hillel says that all the Torah wants us to do is to be nice to other people, and the rest is just ways to achieve this.
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4 comments:
Then why can't you just learn that one verse?
Rabbi HOT SAUCE says:
It's like cause and effect- you are nice to everyone, no one hates you. Except people always end up hating you for no reason....
i am in full agreement witchu
what about all the other 612 mitzvot in the torah?
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