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Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us ModernityI had stared into the hideous face of my ignorance and confusion and grown sick at the sight. I wasnБЂ™t at all certain that the large portion of each school day that was devoted to holy scholarship was redressing my lack of knowledge in the least. Mrs. SchoenfeldБЂ™s class seemed the one exception offered to me that year. Ever since I could remember, historia had gotten no further than the Roman destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, in 7б б°C.E. Jewish history that was so remote had felt to me continuous with khumash and navi, the Five Books of Moses and the books of the prophets. This impression was underscored not only by historiaБЂ™s being taught in the mornings, together with all the other religious subjects, but also taught in Hebrew, while our secular subjects were taught in English, mostly by moonlighting public school teachers. The public school teachers brought, at least for me, the sweet breath of real knowledge into the classroom, even though I knew they had to censor themselves. I had caught the look of discomfort on my tenth-grade biology teacherБЂ™s face, listening to our rabbi-principal explain to us that, because of the New York State Regents exam, we were going to have to study an untrue theory fabricated by Charles Darwin, but that we should not forget for a single moment that it was scientifically unproven and, more important, contradicted by Torah ...» |
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