hillel raze he was born in babylon more than two thousand years ago. he descended from the tribe of benjamin on his father's side. my tired eyes insist on reading "tribe" as "tree". i like to imagine him sliding down the trunk of an ancient oak and asking: "if i am not for myself, who will be for me? and being for myself, what am i? and if_not_now, when?" 231105 what's it to you? who go blather from