ontribution of Yitzhak Rabin that has brought a moral answer to this dilemma. There are those Israelis who emphasize self-reliance and remember Rabbi Hillel's saying, "If | am not for myself, who is for me?" Rabin understood Rabbi Hillel had a second part: “When | am for myself, what am I?" He saw that th

r one’s own group (however defined). But it does require more universal advocacy as well. The “motto” for the club might well be the famous dictum of Hillel: “If I am not for myself, who will be for me, but if I am for myself alone, what am I? And if not now, when?” I have tried hard to live by these word