Shammai

Rabbi Shammai (* and † around 100 BC, also listed as Shammai Haffakin ) was a Pharisaic school's founder in the 1st century BC and introduced the weightiest competitors of his teacher Hillel dar.

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In the Jewish tradition, as with Hillel and Shammai of several statements in the sayings of the Fathers, a popular section of the Talmud, survived. An example: Shammai said: Set for your Torah fixed hours; say little but do much, and receive all people with a friendly face (Chapter I, 15). His theses, particularly those concerning the divorce, were advocated, inter alia, of Jesus of Nazareth.