Shammai & Hillel, Houses of

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Shammai & Hillel, Houses of : The Torah academies founded by Hillel and Shammai were known as the “Houses of Hillel and Shammai.” The Mishnah records 316 disagreements between the schools, with the House of Hillel generally taking the lenient view and the House of Shammai, the more stringent one. In all but 18 cases, the halachah is accordance with the House of Hillel.

The difference of opinion between the School of Shammai and the School of Hillel regarding the kindling of Chanukah lamps Book

From correspondence of the Lubavitcher Rebbe; translated by Eli Touger

The following letter was written to Rabbi Chayim Dovber Ginsburg, an active Rabbi in Vancouver, B.C. [Beginning of Shvat, 5703] In the margins of your last letter, you cited the statements of the tractate Sofrim (2:5) that the custom is to continue to ...

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