This essay seeks to reconsider the relation of the universal-rational ethos of Spinoza’s thought to the Jewish tradition and culture in which he was raised and socially situated. In particular. I seek to engage with two previous portrayals—specifically. those of Isaac Deutscher and Yirmiyahu Yovel—that present Spinoza’s universalism as arising from his break fr... https://thesportsshopkingswinfordes.shop/product-category/bag/