The Greek philosophers
1) Socrates lived during the First Temple period, Plato was a child when the First Temple was destroyed and died a few years after the Second Temple was built, Aristotle lived during the Second Temple period. According to Wikipedia dating. How is it that none of them mentioned in their teachings the Jews and their faith, the miracles that took place in the Temple, God’s leadership in the world, the reality of the Creator, prophecy, etc.?
2) Do you believe the description of the content of Alexander the Great’s encounter with Shimon the Tzadik as it appears in the Gemara? That Alexander bowed before him and told his soldiers that he saw his blood fighting and defeating his enemies?
3) What should one aim for in prayer when they say, “And for Your miracles that are with us every day, and for Your wonders that are at all times ” if there is no providence? Can one aim for the fact that He binds the spirit to the body at every moment, similar to what the Rama says about what He created?
4) (Next) Do you prefer to ask questions about different topics separately?
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- Why would they mention it? It appeared in the New York Times? At that time, there were more wizards than ordinary people.
- No. Their periods do not overlap at all (although I once saw that there were two Shimon the Righteous). That’s a legend.
- About the laws of nature that continue to operate by the power of God. It is of course also possible to connect the body and soul, although this is also not a miracle in the sense of an exception to nature. Even if it does not belong to physics, it is part of the nature of the world.
- At least on questions that require discussion and are expected to have significant follow-up, it is definitely better to split.
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Thanks. Regarding 2, I'm trying to find some idea or analogy as to why the sages included this legend in this way and what it is meant to teach, but I can't. It's unlikely that they worked on us just to glorify and exalt Shimon the Tzadik. Help me.
The legend comes to teach that the Jews are something truly unique and even a mighty conqueror (and murderous scum) like Alexander recognizes their value and in fact everything that all the nations have achieved with this advance of theirs and the vitality and strength of the Jews is all due to the image of the portrait of one Jew who carries the banner of spirituality in our physical world. And for the sake of this matter, of course, it does not matter whether Alexander the Great and Simon the Tzaddik represent themselves here or archetypes. What will it give you and what will it add to you if, instead of Simon the Tzaddik, there is some other priest, a nameless son. But it is from the Megillat Taanit to explain why a certain day was determined to be a good or bad day and it is supposed to be a strong historical source than legends.
M ”M exempt from nothing is impossible, and inspired by the site here or perhaps it is from other places that wrote as ”Z and Mr’ Moshe Shapira and his companion It must be said that Shimon the righteous represents a major stage in the assimilation of Greek ways of thinking, conceptualizing, analyzing, and classifying into the Torah. Shimon is one of the remnants of the Great Synod where there are prophets and the Torah comes from above and he is the first who “he would say” Torah is a didiyya and that is to say that he is already renewing the Torah from the beginning, that is, analyzing the principles and drawing conclusions and from the classification and arrangement new insights grow (as did Akiva in his time who discovered new rules and from which he gave birth to new details for the most part). However, it is necessary to know that the analytical power that conquers and achieves does not stand except on the feet of the synthetic power, if there are no assumptions of the history of the quorum. And the root of syntheticism is in the Temple that Shimon the righteous set out to defend, since the Temple is the inspiration of the Shekhinah and belief in the synthetic power depends and stands on belief in God Almighty.
In any case, this is what I can contribute from my memories, from the literary suggestions that appear in the book Two Carts and a Hot Air Balloon and in the lessons of Rabbi Moshe Shapira, zt. l. And if I made a salad, the spice owners would come and season it.
No salad. Things like spurs.
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