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Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza, one of the world’s foremost philosophers, was born in Amsterdam to parents of Portuguese New Christian origin and educated in the Talmud Torah of the Portuguese Sephardic…
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Artist Unknown
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1665
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It is necessary to remember that hatred is constantly in human society directed and discharged against persons who could not possibly have been guilty of causing it.…
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Peretz (Friedrich) Bernstein
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Rotterdam, Netherlands
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1926
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In order that all the simple…
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Menasseh Ben Israel
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1651
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ḥaver:Do you think languages are eternal, and have no beginning?
Kuzari:They are invented and instituted by common consent, rather than natural; this is evident from their composition of nouns, verbs…
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Jacob Abendana
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1663
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Third Part of the Ethics on the Origins and Nature of the Affects
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Baruch Spinoza
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The Hague, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (The Hague, Netherlands)
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1675
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Genesis 1:26. Let us make man in our image, as our likeness.
Genesis 9:6. For in the image of God made he man.
Deuteronomy 4:15. And guard ye your souls greatly, for ye saw no manner of…
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Menasseh Ben Israel
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1633
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The Talmud is one of the great, classical writings of human civilization—enduring, influential, nourishing. It claims its place among the most successful pieces of writing in the history of humanity…
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Jacob Neusner
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Annandale-on-Hudson, United States of America
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1997