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Family and community origins His statue in Amsterdam Spinoza’s ancestors were of Sephardic Jewish descent and were a part of the community of Portuguese Jews that had settled in the city of Amsterdam in the wake of the Portuguese Inquisition , which had resulted in forced conversions and expulsions from the Iberian Peninsula. They were expelled in and moved to Rotterdam , where Isaac died in Spinoza’s father and his uncle Manuel then moved to Amsterdam where they resumed the practice of Judaism.

Miguel was a successful merchant and became a warden of the synagogue and of the Amsterdam Jewish school. This flourishing commercial activity encouraged a culture relatively tolerant of the play of new ideas, to a considerable degree sheltered from the censorious hand of ecclesiastical authority though those considered to have gone “too far” might have gotten persecuted even in the Netherlands.

Not by chance were the philosophical works of both Descartes and Spinoza developed in the cultural and intellectual background of the Dutch Republic in the 17th century.

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Honestly, while I was upset, I was more traumatized by Jesus visiting me. When I returned to New York a few days later, I was lost. I suddenly felt God everywhere and it was terrifying. More important, it was unwelcome. It felt like an invasion. I started to fear I was going crazy.