World's first no-kill eggs go on sale in Berlin (2018)

Re:World's first no-kill eggs go on sale in Berlin (2018) by names_are_hard on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @01:20PM (#25212382)

Nitpicking the Hillel quote, the message is correct but to prevent misinformation spreading on the web I feel like correcting. Hillel is quoted in the Mishna[0] as saying,

"If I am not for me, who is for me? If I am for myself, what am I? If not now, when?"[1]

If Hillel said "if not you, then who?" I have not found a source, but I believe this is a common interpretation of his first sentence. Then again, maybe he was talking about self care and not taking responsibility. I don't know.

[0] Avoth 1.14

[1] Translation by me, the wording is terse and open to interpretation so I tried to be faithful to the text and not inject my own interpretation

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Re:World's first no-kill eggs go on sale in Berlin (2018) by chrisjarvis on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @05:04PM (#25214798)

I have no idea thanks for the extra information! it’s a quote I’ve always liked. When I googled who said it Hillel came up.

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Re:World's first no-kill eggs go on sale in Berlin (2018) by names_are_hard on Thursday November 26, 2020 @12:42AM (#25217205)

Yeah the internet is awesome at mangling and misattributing quotes. The fact that the original is easily found online doesn't help because it's in a foreign language. Fortunately it's pretty rudimentary Hebrew and it doesn't take an expert to understand, just someone who can read the language. Hillel's saying immediately preceding this one is in Aramaic...good luck dropping that in Google Translate :)

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