Looking Out for Number One

Dear Abbie - The Non-Advice Podcast · Nov 16, 2022 · 9m

Quoted in full, Rabbi Hillel’s famous saying goes like this:

If I am not for myself, who will be?

And if I am only for myself, what am I?

And if not now, when?

Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita of Philosophy, Brooklyn College of The City University of New York. She is the author of A Good Look at Evil, a Pulitzer Prize nominee, now appearing in an expanded second edition and as audiobooks. Dr. Rosenthal writes a weekly column for “Dear Abbie: The Non-Advice Column,” where she explores the situation of women. She thinks women’s lives are highly interesting. She’s the editor of The…