Hillel's Rule
The late Mordecai M. Kaplan suggested that the term רגל mentioned in the story in BT (bShab 31a) of Hillel's conversion of a Gentile to Judaism "while I stand on one foot" (על רגל אחת) may be a bilingual pun, if רגל is understood as the Latin regula, rather than literally as the...
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Penn Press
1990
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The Jewish quarterly review
Year: 1990, Volume: 81, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 45-57 |
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