The school of Hillel the Elder, the most influential of the pre-70 AD Pharisaic teachers. Hillel’s interpretive approach was flexible, diaspora-friendly, and merciful — famously summarizing the entire Torah while standing on one foot: ‘What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor.’ After 70 AD, the Hillelite school dominates Yavneh and becomes the primary stream of Rabbinic Judaism. The Patriarch (Nasi) position is held by Hillel’s descendants for centuries. The Talmud preserves hundreds of disputes between Hillel and Shammai; in almost every case, the halakha follows Hillel.