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This event may have been a response to its target getting declared an orphan to discharge his father’s debts. In 2021, Johns Hopkins’s Yitzhak Melamed was barred from filming a documentary about this event (15[1])in a statement labeling its subject an epicouros. (-5[1])A David Ives play about this event (0[1])cuts from an interrogation to a tavern scene featuring the music teacher Clara Van den Enden. (-5[1])This event occurred 17 years after a similar one in which Uriel da Costa was forced to symbolically lie down in a doorway. (15[1])Steven (*) Nadler argued that this event was prompted by a man’s rejection of the immortality of the soul. (-5[1])In this event, its target received a writ of herem (10[1])(“HAIR-em”) condemning his “monstrous deeds,” forcing him to take up a career in lens-grinding. For 10 points, (10[1])identify this (10[1])1656 event, in which the author of Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (10[2])was ostracized from the Jewish (10[2]-5[1])community of Amsterdam. ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: excommunication of Baruch Spinoza [accept synonyms like explusion in place of “excommunication”]
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Summary

2024 Chicago Open07/28/2024Y1292%17%33%125.36

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
John MarvinThere are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to seeBerkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy3315
Naveed ChowdhuryLisan al-QuibThe Empire Bikes Back41-5
Henry AtkinsThe Empire Bikes BackLisan al-Quib480
Iain CarpenterAre You There, Chat? It's Me, MargaretLes Missourables64-5
John LawrenceBHSU Bit's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown8715
Tracy Mirkinsticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zoneMindgoblin of Little Hobbes105-5
Ethan AshbrookGalvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood VermeerLMM's LLM MLM11510
Jerry VinokurovThe Oldest Men in the WorldNJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess)13110
Andrew HartPunished "Venom" BHSUI’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open)13310
Arya KarthikCharlotte's Moderately Successful TeamgenAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet14210
Jorrest WeintraubThe Jeam TeamRead slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A14210
Hazel DePriest-SullivanNJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess)First Cause, First Cause, make me young!14710
Aidan MehiganFirst Cause, First Cause, make me young!NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess)147-5
Amogh KulkarniAMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUHThe Dyatlov Passement incident14710
Fred GarveyLes MissourablesAre You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret15110
Jonathan ShaufMindgoblin of Little Hobbessticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone15110