Are we Better Off: Retreading the Multi-Year Debate between the Schools of Hillel and Shammai

from This Jewish Life - With Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe · host TORCH

The rabbis taught: for two and a half years the academies of Shammai and Hillel debated, these arguing “it is preferable for man to not be created more than to be created”, and these arguing “it is preferable for man to be created more than to not be created”. They counted (voted) and concluded: “it […]

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