Hillel

Hillel and Shammai led rival schools of Torah learning.

Shammai was more strict than Hillel.

Rabbinic Judaism is based more on Hillel than on Shammai.

Zamenhof held with the ideas of the Pharisee sage Hillel.

Most Zionists hoped for a state of their own, but early in the 20th century, writers like Hillel Solotaroff and Chaim Zhitlowsky, both Yiddish-speaking immigrant intellectuals in New York, imagined another alternative: a federation of self-governing anarchist communes in Palestine that would defend Jewish life without relying on state power.