People like to know what they are getting all the time, especially when they have something and they want to keep it as long as they can. In the story of creation, the first one, in Genesis 1, the man is getting a present from the eternal one and this is a

Quality that called the image of God, as written:

” וַיִּבְרָא אֱלֹהִים אֶת-הָאָדָם בְּצַלְמוֹ, בְּצֶלֶם אֱלֹהִים בָּרָא אֹתוֹ:  זָכָר וּנְקֵבָה, בָּרָא אֹתָם”

“And God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.

The question that always rises up is what is this image- do we look like him? Do we have something that he has? Is this quality is unique only for us?

The image of God according to rashi is that we are like a small portrait of The Lord, which means that every man is like a small God, with all the privileges, but also with our responsibility to the world.

Another commentary is that we all, unlike the animals, has the common sense, the brain- that’s what Maimonides is saying…

According to other Jewish sage, Sephorno, the image is the free will that we have to choose between the good and the evil. Some said that the image is the power of creation, the soul and etc…

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