[Avodah] Aristotle was an Orthodox Jew and the Rivash apposed Kabalah?

[Zev Sero]

That Aristotle converted is an old Jewish legend.  Is it true?  Who knows?
Did Nero really convert, as Jewish legend insists?  Again, who is to say?
Dismissing it just because it *is* a Jewish legend would clearly be wrong.

As for the Rivash, quoting Wikipedia, which is in turn heavily based on
the Jewish Encyclopaedia, is worthless.  The JE was written by Reformers
and Maskilim, with the specific intention of denigrating Torah and its
believers, and especially Kabala and Chassidus, which the maskilim saw
as their chief enemy.

In particular, the bit about how "Isaac cites the words of a certain
philosopher" is downright dishonest in its implication that he cites those
words approvingly.  The very way he refers to the fellow, "echad min
hamitpalsephim", shows his opinion about the quote.

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