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Still, he continues to study, even after he officially leaves the yeshiva and goes into business, first his fatherБЂ™s and then, after his fatherБЂ™s passing, founding an import and export business with his younger brother: Bento y Gabriel de Spinoza. There are various independent learning centers, jeshibot, in the community, supported by the wealthy, so that the men can continue to observe the mitzvah of Torah learning even while they earn their living. After all, scholarship has, ever since the destruction of the Temple, taken the place of the old ceremonies of worship, the pilgrimsБЂ™ holidays, and sacrifices. Advance in Jewish learning constitutes, in itself, an ethical activity. The rabbis were right in this. The mindБЂ™s absolute virtue is to understand. The mindБЂ™s highest good is the knowledge of God, and the mindБЂ™s virtue is to know God.14 Years later, after SpinozaБЂ™s excommunication, a man named Daniel Levi БЂ” his alias БЂњMiguelБЂ«БЂ”de Barrios, a Spanish-born Marrano and a poet, writing in Spanish, and also the Amsterdam communityБЂ™s official chronicler, alludes to SpinozaБЂ™s attendance in Rabbi MorteiraБЂ™s school, which is called Keter Torah, or Crown of the Law, as well as to that of the other excommunicated heretic, Daniel de Prado, in carefully chosen words: The Crown of the Law [Corona de la ley], ever since the year of its joyous foundation, never ceased burning in the academic bush, thanks to the doctrinal leaves written by the most wise Saul Levi Morteira, lending his intellect to the counsel of Wisdom and his pen to the hand of Speculation, in the defense of religion and against atheism ...»