Despite this, there is still, for example, an opinion, “that GOD is a kind of abundant and radiant light.” This claim that GOD is a kind of light is based on “studies” and “rabbis” talking about people who have died a clinical death. After they regained consciousness, these people said they saw a great light that spoke to them and drew them in. And this, they argue, is the proof that GOD is actually a great, abundant, and attractive light. One possibility to explain these stories, if we decide to accept them as true is that a lack of oxygen in the brain made them hallucinate.
The second possibility is that they really saw the next world. Then we have proof that in the next world there is some kind of light. The very fact that they saw a great spiritual light abounding in love and light that attracted them to it, does not in any way prove that GOD is this great light. It is important to understand that in truth this light is just as material as a statue. It is a complete fulfillment to think this way about GOD and it has nothing to do with how Judaism treats GOD.
There are more sophisticated people who understand that GOD is not really light. These people say that because light is a material thing, GOD is actually an idea such as the idea of love, a higher power, or other similar things. Such definitions sound more spiritual but are material and similar to a statue just like thinking GOD is made of material or thinking GOD is light.
There are also even more sophisticated people who have even more abstract formulations, for example, that GOD is an absolute beauty, or the absolute truth, or the infinite absolute perfection that flows in everything being in its beauty and exclusion. Despite the sophistication in them, even behind such beautiful sentences, there can be fulfillment and a mental error just like saying that GOD is a statue made of mud. Absolute wholeness is a very beautiful thing, but when we refer to a familiar concept from our daily life experience and simply attach to it the phrase “absolute,” then that too is not GOD.
