Journey to Greece 2024: Athens - Plato Meets Yirmiyahu Hanavi

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com hello everyone hello everyone we uh this evening we were by the parnon by the Acropolis and I asked the tour guide if Aristotle was around if Alexander the Great was around at the time that they built the paron no aristot was about 100 years later Alexander the Great also was a generation later but Plato was there Plato was there when they built the Parthenon and the Acropolis so I want to share with you one account that we have an our literature about Plato and just to put in your mind how early these individuals were in other words Alexander the Great he met met shim sadic Plato met yovi okay that's how early they were Plato met yovi there is an account given by the Rama wrot a where he brings that brought Plato with him when he destroyed in the B mikash and Plato went to the harabas and he saw Yi crying that's very interesting I never realized this how do how is Yi allowed to go to the harabas are you allowed to go to the harabas was Yia going on the harabas unless you say [Applause] noways that was but any event we don't know exactly whether this was literal if he met him actually on the and Plato seeds crying he's stopping here yeah well don't go anywhere give me one minute Plato here's nanet are crying and he says I don't understand you you're a smart man why you crying over sticks and stones and number two why would you cry over spilled milk there's nothing you could do to bring it back you're a grown man why are you crying over the past so the Rama reports that Yi says to Plato I'm sure you're a great philosopher you probably have very difficult questions ask me all your questions Plato asks y's questions and Yia answers the questions one after another Yia says all of my wisdom I got from this building so you're asking it's Sticks and Stones it's a lot more than that my source of wisdom is this building is this edifice and regarding why I'm crying over the past that's something that you can never understand says the altar of kelm reported by rabar uh laan Rabel laan in the LA in the back of the he says that what Yi meant was we don't cry over the B mikdash because it happened in the past but we believe that when we cry over the B mikdash this brings it to fruition in the future we're not crying over spilled milk our tears will in the future build the B mikdash and this is an idea that every Jew intuitively understands but even the greatest Gentile philosopher cannot comprehend how our tears will build the B MD so this should just put into context when these individuals lived Plato actually was in the time that the paron was built and this goes back he's somebody who even met Yi thank okay you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com