In the image of God

From the Talmud, quoted by Rabbi Arthur Waskow

Our Rabbis taught: Adam, the first human being, was created as a single person to show forth the greatness of the Ruler Who is beyond all Rulers, the Blessed Holy One. For if a human ruler mints many coins from one mold, they all carry the same image, they all look the same. But the Blessed Holy One shaped all human beings in the Divine Image, as Adam was shaped in the Divine Image [Gen. 1: 27], “btzelem elohim,” “in the Image of God.” And yet not one of them resembles another.

(Sanhedrin 38a; Soncino transl., p. 240):

One Response to “In the image of God”

  1. Xveckthorn Says:

    There most certainly is no God. [Dawkins 7:1]

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