Note that many Orthodox thinkers have also developed theologies that would be considered very liberal by the standards of most Orthodox Jews, such as Rabbis Abraham Issac Kook, David Hartman and Irving Greenberg - and none of them are even remotely close to Spinonza's pantheism. Pantheism, a recently developed non-Jewish belief, states that God is simply identical with the universe, the sum total of everything in existence. There is no transcendent nature to God, no Mind, no Will. This is the view of Spinoza. In contrast, Panentheism holds that while the universe is a part of God, it is not the whole of His being.
Nature is thus but an aspect of divinity.
Unlike pantheism, in panentheism God still maintains a transcendent character, and maintains the traditional view of God as creator, and as the source of morality. A notable understanding of God is to be found in some versions of Hasidic thought, based an interpretation of Kabbalah. While Hasidim refer to this belief as a form of Kabbalah, this system of thought is more formally known as Panentheism. However, today panentheism is a fully acepted path in Jewish theology. Panentheism is also accepted in process-theology, based on the philosophy of Whitehead and Hartshore, and popularized in Judaism by Rabbi Harold Kushner and Rabbi William E. Kaufman.