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As for us -- namely, you, as reader, and me as writer -- it's my hope that we can follow the example of Hillel and Shammai, loving both the debate and the debater.
Rabbi Adam Jacobs: A Rabbi Responds To His Atheist Critics Rabbi Adam Jacobs 2011
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Two of the most famous interlocutors, known to us as Hillel and Shammai, engaged in hundreds of dialogues, recounted throughout the Talmud, in which the two agreed on almost nothing.
Rabbi Adam Jacobs: A Rabbi Responds To His Atheist Critics Rabbi Adam Jacobs 2011
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The first century rabbis who typify the Talmud's rich culture of debate are Hillel and Shammai, two opposing schools of Jewish thought.
Eliyahu Federman: Violence To Preserve Judaism, Or Diversity Of Opinion? Eliyahu Federman 2012
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If the Haredi want their tradition to endure they should live by the example of Hillel and Shammai by encouraging meaningful dialogue with those that have a different philosophy than them instead of resorting to violence like Korach and his faction.
Eliyahu Federman: Violence To Preserve Judaism, Or Diversity Of Opinion? Eliyahu Federman 2012
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If the Haredi want their tradition to endure they should live by the example of Hillel and Shammai by encouraging meaningful dialogue with those that have a different philosophy than them instead of resorting to violence like Korach and his faction.
Eliyahu Federman: Violence To Preserve Judaism, Or Diversity Of Opinion? Eliyahu Federman 2012
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For this reason the Talmud explains that the debates of Hillel and Shammai's schools of thought will endure but the debates of Korach and his faction will not endure.
Eliyahu Federman: Violence To Preserve Judaism, Or Diversity Of Opinion? Eliyahu Federman 2012
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But the Pharisees -- rabbinic Jews -- from Hillel and Shammai's time onward approved of this takeover, since in the main they were anti-Maccabean.
Robert Eisenman: Abrahamic Conversion Robert Eisenman 2011
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But the Pharisees -- rabbinic Jews -- from Hillel and Shammai's time onward approved of this takeover, since in the main they were anti-Maccabean.
Robert Eisenman: Abrahamic Conversion Robert Eisenman 2011
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The first century rabbis who typify the Talmud's rich culture of debate are Hillel and Shammai, two opposing schools of Jewish thought.
Eliyahu Federman: Violence To Preserve Judaism, Or Diversity Of Opinion? Eliyahu Federman 2012
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For this reason the Talmud explains that the debates of Hillel and Shammai's schools of thought will endure but the debates of Korach and his faction will not endure.
Eliyahu Federman: Violence To Preserve Judaism, Or Diversity Of Opinion? Eliyahu Federman 2012
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