Ooh, that’s a good one!

We have let too many pantheistic ideas into modern Judaism. When my kid was in tots' group in shul, some kids used to sing after "Hashem is here, Hashem is there, Hashem is truly everywhere..." "Hashem is in your butt." Spinoza was expelled for a reason, guys.

Hey! Those are panENtheistic ideas, thankyouverymuch. The Uncles Moishy will have to answer for that…

Go wild.

When I was 18, my teacher's spouse taught their kids to sing "Hashem's not here, Hashem's not here, Hashem's not truly anywhere." Which, I mean, does scan.

Was this anti-pantheist or just anti-theist?

Anti-pantheist in this case. I suspect this was “both versions are wrong, but at least this one doesn’t sound like avodah zara”.

That's more my speed.

(Why must every post have a typo?? Truly, what yiddish curse is this) Second here should be a "there".

I will not stand for this oblique Hans Jonas slander. (Jonas’ theology was panentheist rather than pantheist, however).

I am a theist; it makes my skin crawl to hear little children singing a pantheistic song. At a bris about a year ago, the mohel gave a little speech afterward that concluded, "Hashem is in all of us," and one of the people at my table met my eye, & we opened our eyes VERY wide at each other.