Spinoza's Place in Jewish History
From time to time attempts have been made to reclaim Spinoza for Judaism. If this means that Spinoza was a Jew and an admirable person who did not deserve to have been placed under the ban, many Jews would go along with it. But if it means that Spinoza's philosophy is compatible with Judaism, Spinoza himself would have rejected any such claim.
Spinoza is generally seen by Jews as outside the religion and as therefore posing no threat to the religion. That is why nowadays religious Jews usually view the whole Spinoza question in a detached way and even feel proud of Spinoza's influence on world philosophy--one of "us" extending such a great influence on "them." In a Hasidic tale, a Rebbe was told by one of his follows that, in Spinoza's view, there is no basic difference between humans and animals. The Rebbe replied: in that case, why have animals never produced a Spinoza?
Baruch Spinoza: Heretic Extraordinaire
Application to Dialectical Psychology
"The human brain not only can hold two contradictory ideas at the same time but insists on it."
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"so there are 1.000.000.000.000 flops in a terra flop"
