A thought about the lubavitcher rebbe's shita on the menora, claude.site/artifacts/95f4…

If u understand this you will know that since the world is curved, "straight" means curved. like when you throw a ball gravity leads it in a curved parabola and not a straight line. Thus truly even the lubavitcher rebbe meant the menora was curved, as the alter rebbe explained.

People often search externally for life's meaning, but true purpose comes from within. Discover what you desire and take responsibility for your own meaning. #MeaningOfLife #Purpose

אני הולך להדביק את זה מתחת לשרשורים אקראיים

Is a the cessation of prophecy more basic to religionprophecy existing? It's a thought-provoking question that warrants deeper reflection. #Faith #Prophecy FULL VIDEO _ youtube.com/watch?v=aViEMI…

וגם אל ירע בעיניך על אשר לא שלחתי לך מעות ('מכתב הגאולה' לבעש"ט)

Tanna debè Ribbi Yishma'el this criticism is fake. order of a human book isn't supposed to be a demonstrative proof, it will necessarily be possible to have been otherwise, but rambam had ruach hakodesh and his reasons are mostly what was actually in rabenu hakadosh's mind.

discussion about what philosophers know more than anyone else given that knowledge ≠ imagining images or sentences.

if prohairesis is this very specific "rational choice", and akraisa is the conflict of this with epithumia - it follows that most of what we call "weakness of the will" isn't even akraisa for aristotle, more like we have wishes or opinions to have been a different person.

New Damascius class: How does the soul give life to the body? Also: why no one does philosophy for pleasure, whether you can meet your lover in Hades, and why pure evil is a contradiction.

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News: different every day, but not new. Nous: new every day, but not different.

We discuss Damascius' short descriptions of the different levels of virtue, with some curious digressions: natural virtue leads us to talk about transmigration and ethical virtue brings up eugenics!

Neoplatonic Virtue: Gods and Courage youtu.be/kBj2oq8Nxuc Yitzchok Lowy and I continue Damascius' account of true virtue, focusing on the nature of philosophical courage and the presence of virtue amongst the gods.

Neoplatonic Virtue: Hermeias on Madness I Yitzchok Lowy (Yitzchok Lowy ) and I start reading Hermeias' commentary on the four kinds of divine madness discussed in the Phaedrus, including the important section on how theurgy can allow us to correct our choice of life.