Editing Monism (section)

==== Judaism ====
{{Main|Judaism}}
Jewish thought considers God as [[transcendence (religion)|separate from all physical, created things]] and as existing outside of time.{{refn|group=note|For a discussion of the resultant [[paradox]], see ''[[Tzimtzum]]''.}}{{refn|group=note|See also [[Negative theology#In the Jewish tradition|Negative theology]].}}

According to [[Maimonides]], God is an [[Incorporeality|incorporeal being]] that caused all other existence; to admit [[wikt:wiki/corporeal|corporeality]] to God is tantamount to admitting complexity to God, which is a contradiction to God as the [[Unmoved mover#First cause|first cause]] and constitutes [[Heresy in Judaism|heresy]].<ref name="FoL-1">See ''Foundations of the Law'', Chapter 1</ref> While [[Hasidic]] mystics considered the existence of the physical world a contradiction to God's [[Divine simplicity#In Jewish thought|simpleness]], Maimonides saw no contradiction.{{refn|group=note|See the "Guide for the Perplexed", especially chapter I:50.}}

According to [[Hasidic thought]] (particularly as propounded by the 18th century, early 19th-century founder of [[Chabad]], [[Shneur Zalman of Liadi]]), God is held to be [[immanent]] within [[Genesis creation myth|creation]] for two interrelated reasons:
# A very strong Jewish belief is that "[t]he Divine life-force which brings [the universe] into existence must constantly be present ... were this life-force to forsake [the universe] for even one brief moment, it would revert to a state of utter nothingness, as before the creation ..."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.chabad.org/library/tanya/tanya_cdo/aid/7988/jewish/Chapter-2.htm |title=Chapter 2 |website=Chabad.org |access-date=24 January 2019}}</ref>
# Simultaneously, Judaism holds as [[axiom]]atic that God is an absolute unity, and that he is perfectly simple, thus, if his sustaining power is within nature, then his essence is also within nature.{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}