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The story of Hillel, frozen near-to-death on the snowy roof of the
Study Hall, is well-known. In its details, however, the story is
impossible. No one could lay under three cubits of snow overnight
and live. And Jerusalem never receives three cubits of
snow-certainly not on the night of the winter solstice, as
recounted in the Babylonian Talmud five centuries after Hillel's
birth. Louis Rieser set out to find the real meaning of the legends
of Hillel. What is the Talmud trying to teach us about rabbis,
about leadership, about important values? This provocative book
argues that while the famous legends of Hillel may have nothing to
teach about Hillel's actual biography, they have a great deal to
teach us about Judaism. "A fresh and engaging reading of the
Rabbinic biography. Louis Rieser has reopened the Rabbinic stories
and made them interesting again." -Jacob Neusner
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