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Man To Be Created in G-d’s Image

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Gan Eden – Unlike the rest of creation man will be created in G-d’s image,[1] righteous and upright.[2] He will be born already circumcisized[3] as a sign of his righteousness and perfection. He will have the appearance of a twenty-year old.[4]

He will be both a material and spiritual being.[5] He will be formed (רצײו) from the dust from the ground.[6] The defective spelling of formed, the two yuds (י), eludes to his dual nature. He will grow, flourish, decay, and die like other animal but will also walk upright and have the power of speech and thought like spiritual creatures.[4] He will reach from the earth to the heavens,[3] “since that day that G-d created man upon the earth and to the end of the heavens”.[7]

He will be called Adam (אדם). Alef for afer, dust, 1. Dalet for dam, blood, 4. Mem for marah, gall, 40. Forty Five gematria for the name of G-d the is not pronounced (י-ה-ו-ה), “the secret forming of the divine name Adam”.[8]

The earth use to for his head will come from the holiest of places, Har Hamoria.[3] The highest and most important part of his body will come from the highest and most important land,[9] and most suited for the acquisition of wisdom.[10]

His torso will be from earth taken from Bavel (Babylonia), also a land conductive to wisdom. The lowest lying of lands. The earth for his buttocks will come from Akra d’Agma an extremely low-lying area of Bavel.[3]

His dual nature is also reflected in that he will be created androgynously,[5] “male and female He created them”.[1] From man (איש) comes the yud. A point, the single sperm that he gives the female. From women (יאשה) comes the hay the female identifier, the letter used in Hebrew to indicate the gender of a word as female. Yud hey (י-ה) a name of G-d,[5] “In Our Image, after Our likeness”.[8]

Man will be the pinnacle of G-d’s creation. He will be uniquely endowed will free will. Only he will have the ability to willing accept G-d’s rule crowning Him as his king. A benevolent king and a loving subject living in paradise, what could go wrong?


  1. Bereishis (Genesis) 1:27 [«]
  2. Midrash Tanchumah Bereishis [«]
  3. Sanhedrin 38a [«]
  4. Bereishis (Genesis) Rabba 14 [«]
  5. Bereishis (Genesis) Rabba 8 [«]
  6. Bereishis (Genesis) 2:7 [«]
  7. Devarim (Deuteronomy) 4:32 [«]
  8. Zohar 1:34b [«]
  9. Sanhedrin 38a, Rashi [«]
  10. Bava Basra 158b [«]

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