The second commandment implies more than the prohibition of images; it implies rejection of all visible symbols for God; not only images fashioned by man but also of “any manner of likeness, of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.”
And yet there is something in the world that the Bible does regard as a symbol of God. It is not a temple or a tree, it is not a statue or a star. The symbol of God is man, every man. God created man in His image, in His likeness.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel
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