The Torah describes Human beings as being created in Gd's image:
"Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth” (Gen 1:26).
The word the Torah uses for image tzelem, is particularly striking. On the whole, the Torah is against creating any image of Gd. It is a crime of the highest order. But here, in the beginning of the bible, Gd creates an image of himself. Tzelem, according to Dr. Klein, the Hebrew language guru, probably originally meant cut off, or a piece of something. The first human being then, is a broken off, little piece of Gd.
But that is only the beginning of the paradox. If you were to break of a piece of chalk into a smaller piece, you'd still have chalk. But Gd is singular, infinite and unique. To be a broken of piece of something with those attributes would mean a loss of consconsistencye shard is totally different.
Human beings have something of the Divine in them but is only a reflection.
"Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth” (Gen 1:26).
The word the Torah uses for image tzelem, is particularly striking. On the whole, the Torah is against creating any image of Gd. It is a crime of the highest order. But here, in the beginning of the bible, Gd creates an image of himself. Tzelem, according to Dr. Klein, the Hebrew language guru, probably originally meant cut off, or a piece of something. The first human being then, is a broken off, little piece of Gd.
But that is only the beginning of the paradox. If you were to break of a piece of chalk into a smaller piece, you'd still have chalk. But Gd is singular, infinite and unique. To be a broken of piece of something with those attributes would mean a loss of consconsistencye shard is totally different.
Human beings have something of the Divine in them but is only a reflection.
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