What is the most important rule of the Torah?

In the Talmud, (Shabbat 31a), the following story is told about the leading rabbi of his time, llel (who died in around 10CE) in which he answers this question: On another occasion it happened that a certain heathen came before Shammai and said to him, 'Make me a proselyte, on condition that you teach me the whole Torah while I stand on one foot. ' Thereupon he repulsed him with the builder's cubit which was in his hand. Rashi explains: a cubit to measure off the amount of work done by a builder.

When he went before he said to him, 'What is hateful to you, do not to your neighbour: that is the whole Torah, while the rest is the commentary thereof; go and learn it Soncino translation llel's answer was a paraphrase of the Golden Rule, which appeared first in the Jewish scriptures (Leviticus 19:18), Love your neighbour as yourself.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.

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