What good will it do?' is the question people ask upon learning I’m participating in a 40-day solidarity Fast for Gaza, ...

Still, as Rabbi Tarfon said some 1,800 years ago, “You are not compelled to finish the work, but neither are you permitted to desist from it. ...

The ancient sage Rabbi Tarfon said: “The work is plentiful. … It is not your duty to finish the work, but neither are you at liberty to neglect it.” ...

The ancient sage Rabbi Tarfon said: "The work is plentiful. ... It is not your duty to finish the work, but neither are you at liberty to neglect it." Calling to me from 2,000 years ago, ...

I am struck by the words of Rabbi Tarfon in Pirke Avot 2:16: “It is not your duty to finish the work, but neither are you at liberty to neglect it.” ...

Why does the Haggadah tell a story about Rabbi Tarfon, Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi Akiva meeting to discuss "Yetziat Mitzrayim ” all night long, and having to be told that it was time to say the ...

Moreover, why does the Haggadah tell a story about Rabbi Tarfon, Rabbi Eliezer, and Rabbi Akiva meeting to discuss Yetziat Mitzrayim all night long and having to be told that it was time to say ...

Rabbi Tarfon and Rabbi Akiva say: Were we members of a Sanhedrin, no person would ever be put to death. [Thereupon] Rabban Simeon ben Gamaliel remarked, they would also multiply shedders of blood ...

Rabbi Tarfon and Rabbi Akiva say: Were we members of a Sanhedrin, no person would ever be put to death. [Thereupon] Rabban Simeon ben Gamaliel remarked, they would also multiply shedders of blood ...

As we are taught by Rabbi Tarfon in Pirkei Avot 2:16 “It is not your responsibility to finish the work of redemption but neither are you at Liberty to ignore it ...

The rabbi's invitation was very specific in that during this year's "High Holidays" we would be talking about "The Power of 'And' " ... particularly Rabbi Tarfon, who wrote in the year 70 CE, ...