What Does It Mean To Be Made In God's Image?

For years I believed that the phrase "made in the image of God" had become a pious slogan Jews slap on almost every issue -- a phrase in danger of becoming a cliche. In an article in Commentary, and in my book Tikkun Ha'Am/Repairing Our People: Israel and the Crisis of Liberal Judaism, I asked out loud: have we overused that phrase? Do we even know what it means?

I can now say, with confidence, that we know what it means -- thanks to Tomer Persico, who teaches at the Shalom Hartman Institute and who is the author of In God's Image: How Western Civilization Was Shaped by a Revolutionary Idea.

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