Step 02
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The document discusses Hillel's Riddle, which considers one's responsibility to oneself and others. The riddle poses three questions: 1) If I am not for myself, who is for me? 2) If I am for myself alone, what am I? 3) If not now, when? It argues that how we treat ourselves is interconnected with how we treat others, and that we must see to our own needs while also considering the needs of others.
Step 02
- 1. Step 2: Look At Your Own World One way to consider your responsibility to yourself, and then to those besides yourself is to consider Hillel’s Riddle If I am not for myself, who is for me? If I am for myself alone, what am I? If not now, when?
- 2. Step 2: Look At Your Own World One way to consider your responsibility to yourself, and then to those besides yourself is to consider Hillel’s Riddle If I am not for myself, who is for me? If I am for myself alone, what am I? If not now, when? We will see this riddle again in Step 3
- 3. Step 2: Look At Your Own World Hillel’s Riddle The relationship between Self and Other is intertwined As much as we attempt to discuss actions and reactions separately there is no real separation Actions bring reactions Reactions bring actions
- 4. Step 2: Look At Your Own World Hillel’s Riddle If I am not for myself, who is for me? If I cannot see my way to meeting my needs, why would another try to help me? If we do not know what a person needs we cannot help them If you do not ask for help no one will respond
- 5. Step 2: Look At Your Own World Hillel’s Riddle If I am for myself alone, what am I? When I only respond to my needs and not the needs of others I am not encountering the world If I do not see the needs of Other I do not love them, If I do not love them I really do not love myself.
- 6. Step 2: Look At Your Own World Hillel’s Riddle If not now, when? Rebbe Tarfon taught: The day is short. The work is burdensome... and you don’t get you work you can’t handle — even as you may feel otherwise! He also taught you are not obligated to complete the work, neither are you free to avoid it, and the righteous are ready for the future. Adapted from Pirqé Avot 2:15-16