Was Adam Packin' Heat?

well, god did make BOTH man and woman in his image.

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which reminds me. leonard nimoy should stick to acting. no offense, leonard, but get a tripod.i've heard a bunch of different interpretations of shekinah, some more of a "holy spirit" or presence of god idea. i think qabalists say that the male god is malevolent, and the female benevolent. or something.

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"shadow" is צֵל. "image/idol/photograph" is צלם (depending on vowels). they are almost certainly related words, but it's not quite accurate to say one is the other.god making man in his own image is P's reinterpretation of J's much more direct symbolism, where yahweh literally breathes into the man's nose to make him alive. instead of the man containing the very essence of god, man is now a "shadow" of god. P is reworking a much larger J creation epic, of which we only have a small portion left, condensing and sanitizing J's scandalous assertions. there's the interpretation that adam was a hermaphrodite, and that god split adam, but that comes from a conflation of the two separate stories. Edited by arachnophilia, : link fail

probably, yes. more accurately, it's "rib" or "side". the idea being that woman was taken from man's side, only to return to it (as man was taken from the dirt, and returns to the dirt). truer words have not been spoken.