Monotheism of the Torah is relatively easy to define. That God made the world but is not the world. This is easy to see in all book of Torah from the Middle Ages. However the religious world have been in the habit of denying this and claiming the world is condensed Divine Light.
They do this in a sneaky way by pretending to follow Torah by means of external rituals. They believe these rituals make them right and righteous about everything they do wrong.
The basic system of Torah is that God is one and He made the world from nothing. Not from Divine light. He is not the world, nor is the world God.
Since the religious deny this, I refuse to have anything to do with them. [Not to mention almost everything the religious do is in direct opposition to the Torah].
Furthermore, God has no substance nor form. He made substance and form, but they do not apply to Him. So nothing can have the substance of God since he has no substance. Again this is in direct opposition the the religious. Another reason to stay away from them.
[This point that God has no substance nor form nor even any kind of spiritual substance is a point made by the חובות הללבות Obligations of the Heart in the beginning of his book when proving God is one. That is where he whittles down the number of causes to one First Cause. The step right before that is that God made Form and Substance. The step then that God who made these is not either one, but is their cause, and thus he is One--not a composite. ]
They do this in a sneaky way by pretending to follow Torah by means of external rituals. They believe these rituals make them right and righteous about everything they do wrong.
The basic system of Torah is that God is one and He made the world from nothing. Not from Divine light. He is not the world, nor is the world God.
Since the religious deny this, I refuse to have anything to do with them. [Not to mention almost everything the religious do is in direct opposition to the Torah].
Furthermore, God has no substance nor form. He made substance and form, but they do not apply to Him. So nothing can have the substance of God since he has no substance. Again this is in direct opposition the the religious. Another reason to stay away from them.
[This point that God has no substance nor form nor even any kind of spiritual substance is a point made by the חובות הללבות Obligations of the Heart in the beginning of his book when proving God is one. That is where he whittles down the number of causes to one First Cause. The step right before that is that God made Form and Substance. The step then that God who made these is not either one, but is their cause, and thus he is One--not a composite. ]
