Made in the Image

Made in the Image

Jewish tradition teaches deep reverence for the human body. The Torah’s creation story posits that Elohim, the form-loving aspect of divinity that created the world and all the life forms that populate it, made the human being in its own image — b’tzelem Elohim.Though we’re taught that the divine does not have a body or any physical manifestation, the temptation to anthropomorphize the deity proved too much for many Jewish poets and mystics. Mos…