“You have devoted your life to the study of Spinoza’s banned works and the development of his ideas,” Serfaty wrote to Yitzhak Melamed. (JTA) — More than 350 years after Baruch Spinoza was ...

Like Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta, Stoicism rejects a separate divine sphere, arguing instead that God is infused in all ...

In his 'Jewish Lives' biography of the Rebbe, Ezra Glinter explains the outer life of a man whose focus was entirely inward.

Baruch Spinoza, the renegade 17th century Jewish philosopher, was born in Amsterdam to parents who fled oppressive Portugal to live among the more tolerant Dutch. A young, nonconforming Spinoza ...

Key works about Spinoza’s critical role in the formation of modern Jewish identity Arguably, no historical thinker has had as varied and fractious a reception within modern Judaism as Baruch (Benedict ...

One philosopher, Baruch Spinoza, proposed a new theology, rooted in a close analysis of the Bible, which could fit this new science and provide a sound basis for a social order. Spinoza's Radical ...

While Baruch Spinoza, a prominent Dutch philosopher of the 17th century, did not use the word pantheism to describe his philosophy, his works have tremendously popularized pantheism due to their ...

Baruch Spinoza is one of the most important and original thinkers of the modern period. His work inspired religious free-thinkers and political radicals, French Enlightenment philosophes, German ...

This documentary tells the story of one of the worlds greatest philosophers Baruch Spinoza From his banishment from the Jewish community in Amsterdam to settling down in the Hague creator Robin ...

Key works about Spinoza’s critical role in the formation of modern Jewish identity Arguably, no historical thinker has had as varied and fractious a reception within modern Judaism as Baruch (Benedict ...