Our Rabbis taught: It happened once that a certain non-Jew came to Shammai and said:
- How many Torahs do you have?
- He said; "Two”; the written Torah and the Torah transmitted by mouth.
- I believe you with respect to the Written, but not with respect to the Oral Torah; make me a proselyte on condition that you instruct me on the Written Torah (only).
But Shammai scolded him and repulsed him in anger.
When the same man went to Hillel, the latter accepted him as a proselyte. On the first day he taught him his Aleph, Beth, Gimmel, Daleth; the following day he reversed their order.
- "But yesterday you didn't teach me thus," the man protested.
- "Must you then. not trust me? Then trust me with respect, to the Oral Torah too?
