That, though, is not the end of the story. God intends in the end to fill all creation with his own presence and love. This is part of an answer to Jürgen Moltmann’s proposal to revive the rabbinic doctrine of zimzum, in which God as it were retreats, creates space within himself, so that there is ontological space for there to be something else other than him.8 If I am right, it works the other way around. God’s creative love, precisely by being love, creates new space for there to be things that are genuinely other than God.
