The Destiny Project Episode #38 The Greek Warrior King

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Reinman’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] Welcome to episode 38 of the Goldenberg Destiny Project. In the previous episode, we talked about the birth of Helenism that when Homer wrote his uh epic poem called the Iliad about uh the Trojan War and he basically in his epic poem he captured the gods and he showed that the human being is superior to the gods. So right away he undermined the respect that people had for the gods. But they still believed that they had powers. But already they have powers. Fine. You got to be careful. Everything is important. But who is superior? Very possible that the human human beings are superior to the gods. No. Human beings are talented and creative and they make beautiful buildings and art and sculpture and literature. So this okay but at this point Helenism was only like a body with a mind and a heart but no soul. It didn't have a view of the universe of the great questions of existence. It didn't develop that yet until the philosophers came along. As we spoke at the time of Anakessa killed the visor, the devotional drive that was part of the makeup of people at that time. They changed the entire makeup of the human race and the people were no longer driven by an innate need to connect to divinity. They were set free and then they had a choice which way to go. So the philosophers big three of Greek philosophy was Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. These were the three. So Socrates came along and his thing was

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1. 0:01[Music] Welcome to episode 38 of the Goldenberg Destiny Project. In the previous episode, we talked…
2. 2:48accepted. So they executed him. They gave him hemlock to drink. Very famous. They gave him…
3. 6:01like like uh like in America there's Halloween. We have Halloween with the with witches and…
4. 8:45The the philosophers gave the soul to the to Hellenism. They gave it the ability to…
5. 11:55crushed all opposition in Pella in the capital. He secured the base. Macedonia was secure. All…
6. 15:09in Egypt, but I'm not sure. He didn't declare himself for a god as a god…
7. 17:48have that beautiful, enjoyable, fantastic life that we all enjoy in Greece. And that was very…
8. 21:00reason why you're able to do this and to sell this is because of this man…
9. 23:47in my place and he left. So really what did he do? He didn't do anything.…
10. 27:06There's so many different things going on in the person's life. There's it's very volatile. Situations…

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