Ancient Philosophies · First Addendum

Ancient philosophies and their Kabbalistic roots 0:04

Yeah, he was a These ancient philosophies have, you know, they have something to them. Either some of them some of them actually directly got it from קבלה, more or less, because like the the wisdom was taught to different people. Some had it from like אנוש with the עבודה זרהs, some people had it from when the Jews went different places, and some people just, you know, thought up on their own.

They got like different points, different different parts of like the truth. And like if you look through like a history of philosophies, and you look at all the different philosophies, you see each one like hops on to like, you know, one or two different points of the truth that it talks about in like חסידות and in תורה, and they can't quite figure out how it all fits together.

But, you know, but yeah, it says something about Plato that he was like, as far as his intellect, he understood like ייחודא תתאה, and whatever, well enough to get נבואה, which means to start getting גילוי אצילות. I don't remember, maybe רמב״ם said.

Plato’s grasp of Kabbalistic concepts 1:11

The only problem was that he didn't You have to also be a בינוני. You have You have to both be מתבונן on the שורש all the time, and understand it very well, and refine your intellect very well, but you also have to act properly to make good מלאכים. But he didn't do that. Plato was not Jewish, no. But you don't have to be Jewish to be a נביא.

בלעם was a נביא, you know. But then when he went against He knew that he wasn't able to go against God, because as soon as he went out of line, if he wouldn't be a בינוני, he wouldn't get נבואה anymore. He knew that.

And so he But he was always מתבונן on on stuff all the time, you know. That's how he would do Well, you know, bless people and curse people, is he would make a ייחוד, and you know.