As usual the staring-at-your finger-deflection, do you want people to pull your finger too? The Hillel/Hellene connection is clear and what was said in that post was the same, we think it was the "classics saved" part that got you lighting the witch torches.
Hillel or Hellene, makes no difference dimmy, pull your own finger, the source of the philosophy was definitely Hellene. Those philosophers began to see religion & gods were all social mythologies,tribal localized constructs, it was human reason & self awareness that was always the key
This was the body of the post, pull your own fingers
The greatest influence on the Jewish mindset came from that sage from Babylon. Your religion was so completely Hellene inspired, why when those classics from antiquity came back to Europe centuries later, people really felt like they were truely saved....and they were saved. |