Spinoza's and Kabbalah's Theology of Divinity
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Do you understand Spinoza's concept of divinity and Kabbalah's concept of divinity as identical?
Everything is God, God is in everything, etc. Or is there a difference? Apparently Spinoza was not a heretic, but rather grasped the doctrine of divinity according to the doctrine of the secret?!
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I don't understand Spinoza. Simply put, pantheism is just atheism. The fact that the entire existing complex is called God doesn't change anything. It means that there is no God, but the universe is called God. So what? It's like saying that Macbeth was not written by William Shakespeare, but by his cousin, who was also named William Shakespeare. I dealt with this in the second notebook, see there.
There are different approaches and interpretations of Kabbalah. Kabbalah itself is a collection of structures (which are also controversial). Their meaning depends on the interpretation (which of them is related to the divine and how). Therefore, there is no such thing as a "concept of Kabbalah". You can interpret it like Spinoza and you can not. The interpretation of some Hasidim (like the Lubavitcher Rebbe) is indeed pantheistic, and therefore they are essentially atheists (or just confused). I explain this in my book on theology (currently in the works).
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