Ancient

Hillel

c. 110 BCE–10 CE

Sage of the early rabbis

Pirkei Avot preserves him in a handful of sentences that refuse to choose between the self and the others. If not now, when — the third clause is the one people feel in the body.

In the canon

  1. If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?Pirkei Avot

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