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Episode 53·January 16, 2019·hellenistic

Palaces of Heavenly Wisdom: The Hekhalot and Merkavah Traditions

In this episode we get some basic orientation in the complex tradition known as Hekhalot (a.k.a. Merkavah mysticism, a.k.a.

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Plato . Platon . Platonis Dialogi

Plato · 1150 · Greek · 508 pages

This collection captures the urgent, living spirit of Socratic inquiry at its most potent. Plato argues that we must abandon the distractions of the physical realm to grasp eternal truths. He warns that writing creates a dangerous illusion of wisdom by substituting memorized facts for internal under

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