Hillel

Hillel may refer to:

Biblical

• Hillel, the father of Abdon, a minor character in the Book of Judges

Talmudic

• Hillel the Elder (~110 BCE - 10 CE), also called Hillel the Babylonian, considered the greatest sage of the Second Temple period
• Hillel II (330 – 365 CE), son of Judah III, grandson of Gamliel IV. Nasi of the Jewish community of his day. He is recognized as the founder of the contemporary Jewish (lunar/solar) calendar
• Hillel, son of Gamaliel III (third century CE) This Hillel was the son of Gamliel III, grandson of Judah ha-Nasi, and younger brother of Judah Nesiah

Medieval

• Hillel ben Eliakim (12th century CE), Rabbi and talmudic scholar in Greece. He is sometimes cited as "Hillel of Greece" or "Hillel of Romania".
• Hillel ben Samuel (c. 1220 – c. 1295 CE), Rabbi, physician, and philosopher who lived in some cities of Italy and died in Forlì
• Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi (1615 – 1690), Lithuanian rabbi

Modern

• Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, (1915 – 1975), philosopher, mathematician and linguist best known for work in machine translation and formal linguistics
• Hillel Slovak, (1962 – 1988) original guitarist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Shlomo Hillel, former Israeli politician and Speaker of the Knesset

Organizations

• Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life is a Jewish college organization with branches at many colleges and universities
• Hillel Day School, a private Jewish day school in Farmington Hills, Michigan

See also

• The etymology of the word "Hallel"
• House of Hillel