Did Hillel say “If I am not for myself, who will be for me”?

Did Hillel say “If I am not for myself, who will be for me”?

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5635 “You shall not do as they do in Egypt ... nor follow their practices. Keep my laws, by which one shall live.” It is puzzling: if the Torah warns against immorality, why does it link this to the actions of Egypt and Canaan? The intention appears to be that we should not emulate their behaviors. Every action has an external and internal aspect. The roots of all actions lie in holiness, for ever
Sefat Emet — Chasidut · Other Chasidut Works, Section 2 · Per Sefaria text version: Sefaria Community Translation / Translation by Dan Levy, 2024 / OpenAI, 2024 / YU Torah miTzion Beit Midras / http://www.torontotorah.com (licences vary: public domain, CC0, CC BY, some CC BY-NC) · source

Hillel and Shammai received from them. Hillel would say: Be like the students of Aaron: Love peace, and pursue peace, and bring peace between one person and another, and between husband and wife, [love all people,] and bring them closer to Torah . He would also say: One who pursues a name, loses his name. One who does not increase, diminishes. One who does not learn, deserves to die. One who makes
Avot DeRabbi Natan — Talmud · Bavli / Minor Tractates, Chapter 12 · Per Sefaria text version: Avot DeRabbi Natan, trans. by David Kasher, 2019 (licences vary: public domain, CC0, CC BY, some CC BY-NC) · source

Our real journey into the meaning of Sukkot, however, begins with a book that is not merely the strangest in Tanakh, but also one of the most unlikely ever to have been included in a canon of sacred texts: Kohelet, known in English through its Greek translation as Ecclesiastes, meaning “one who addresses an assembly.” Kohelet is a strange, bewildering and much debated book. It was one of the last
Ceremony and Celebration; Introduction to the Holidays — Jewish Thought · Modern / Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks · Per Sefaria text version: Maggid Books, 2017 / https://korenpub.com/products/ceremony-celebration (licences vary: public domain, CC0, CC BY, some CC BY-NC) · source

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