Have we finally discovered the real reason for Spinoza’s excommunication?

Have we finally discovered the real reason for Spinoza’s excommunication?

The beginning of Baruch Spinoza’s heresy may have begun with his uncircumcised grandfather. As a child in the 17th century, Spinoza visited the Beth Haim cemetery on the outskirts of Amsterdam, getting there by boat, because Dutch Christians wouldn’t allow Jews to have their noisy funeral processions on the road. In the graveyard, he would have noticed that one of his grandfathers, born to a family of forced converts in Portugal, was buried away…