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Torah and Jewish Idea => Torah and Jewish Idea => Topic started by: Sefardic Panther on May 15, 2009, 08:45:49 AM
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Has anyone here read their Torah commentaries? Do you think they are valid or are they too hellenistic?
Here are a couple of things from their writings which can also be found in Kabbalisitc books –
“and these branches (of the Menorah) carried seven lamps, one by one, in imitation of the number of the planets.” – http://www.ccel.org/j/josephus/works/ant-3.htm
I think the 7 planets refers to 7 higher dimensions since there are 9 planets and the sun is not one of them.
“There are seven types of motion -- up/down, right/left, forward/back, rotary” –
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/rak/courses/999/PHILONUM.HTM