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| Image via Walking the Berean Road. |
Avivah Zornberg's The Particulars of Rapture: Reflections on Exodos, which I was talking about the other day, introduces the problem of God's use of a plural form in Genesis 1:26, "Let us make man in our image." It's not some kind of royal we, which hadn't been invented back then. What is is? In a midrash, Rabbi Shmuel bar Nachman imagines Moses as he is taking God's dictation of the Torah, complaining (it's lovely to me what a kvetch Moses always is with the Lord) that the line will be an occasion for miscreants to deny God's singularity:
