This was from a column in the Times today about Mayor Bloomberg's admirable attempt to "green-up" NYC and also preserve it for the future. He said, " if we don't act now, when? And if we don't act, who will?"
The columnist ( Haberman) writes, " Whether or not he meant to, he borrowed it from Hillel the Elder, a Jewish sage of 2,000 years ago."
" 'If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?' "
So simple, so just. Applicable to all living things and to every occasion. So after 2000 years, what's the hold-up?
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