ABSTRACT
Judaism affirms that God is perfect. This truth follows necessarily from the truth of the Divine existence. The idea of the Divine perfection is implicitly contained in the very idea of God. But if God is perfect, superior to all changes and chances, He must be a Spirit only, without physical form or qualities. He cannot have a body—be a material being; for matter is the source, the very type, of imperfection—of change and decay and death. It is quite true that the Bible sometimes uses language which, if taken literally, would imply that God has bodily organs and even human imperfections. The truth is that language, when used in relation to God, is necessarily inadequate, and therefore in effect metaphorical. The Absolute Being, then, is necessarily a Spirit. He is also necessarily Alone, Unique. He is the One and only God. To think of God as a strict unity is, then, the only rational way of conceiving of Him.
