[Avodah] kol hamosif, gorea

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:26:04AM -0500, David Riceman wrote:
: Micha Berger wrote:
:> Let's just say that the Zohar (source of #1)

: See Midrash Rabba 1:1.  And see Theodor-Albeck's notes, which cite Philo 
: as the ultimate source.

And any rishon who likes Plato. (Which is why I recalled the Zohar,
which is clearly a fellow traveler with the neo-Platonists.) Shadows
of the Ideals on the cave wall lends itself naturally to shadows of the
Torah in olam hazeh.

Point being is to divorce the rishonim who reach the same conclusion to
having gotten it from Philo rather than seeing it for themselves.

-Micha