Judaism, Panentheism and Spinoza’s Intellectual Love of God It is a popular misconception that Spinoza was a pantheist or even an atheist. He was not. Like the medieval Kabbalists, Spinoza was a panentheist. Judaism, Panentheism and Spinoza’s Intellectual Love of God Panentheism, meaning “all-in-God,” is situated somewhere between pantheism and classical theism. For pantheists, the world is identical to God, while for classical theists, the world is completely external to G

Spinoza, Panentheism, and Mystical Judaism This paper elucidates Spinoza's panentheism by situating it within its Jewish mystical and philosophical contexts, particularly drawing on Kabbalistic and Hasidic traditions. It argues that Spinoza's conception of God as an infinite substance encompassing and transcending the world resists reductive pantheistic interpretations. Instead, Spinoza presents a nuanced metaphysics where modes exist in God without exhausting divine essence,