Within the framework of the dominant substance metaphysics, we are forced to understand the world as composed of two distinct categories: natural substances—subject to space, time, motion, and change—and supernatural things—simple, eternal, and unchanging.

‘In all your ways, acknowledge God’

it dynamically expresses and generates ideas that can only be fully experienced in the doing. This “knowing” bubbles up from our experiences, an almost intuitive harvest from our doing: hitbonenut in Hebrew.

We are, like the Messiah, always on the way, never arriving, always in process. That inescapable limit means that our dying is about living—with awareness, gratitude, and urgency.

Rather than a system of distilled ideas or a code of behavioral ideals, Jewish observance is living Jews living Judaism and interested non-Jews enriching their own path with nuggets of Torah.

There are countless examples of rabbinic activism in which the Sages of Israel harness the tools of legal analysis and interpretation in the service of the ethical values that infuse the Torah to this day.

“All that people see—sky, earth, and its fullness—are God’s outer garments, manifesting an inner spirit, the Divine which permeates them.”

God, for Process Theology, is manifest as the ground of novelty.

Nature is far more mysterious and awesome than most of its spiritual detractors or materialist manipulators concede, so there is neither evidence nor necessity for a realm beyond it (which may be why neither the Bible nor Rabbinics have a term for natural or a term for supernatural).