This is one of my favorite religious stories (for the moment). It may sound familiar as the bible has a similar passage. Hillel was a Rabbi who was born one hundred and ten years before Christ. Shammai was another Jewish leader who was born fifty years before Christ. Here's the story:
Once there was a gentile who came before Shammai, and said to him:
"Convert me on the condition that you teach me the whole Torah while I stand on one foot."
Shammai pushed him aside with the measuring stick he was holding.
The same fellow came before Hillel, and Hillel converted him, saying:
"That which is despicable to you, do not do to your fellow, this is the whole Torah, and the rest is commentary, go and learn it."
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