EXOD73 God has no image because He is not physical. He transcends the physical universe because He created it. Therefore, He is free, unconstrained by the laws of matter. That is what God means when He tells Moses that His name is "I will be what I will be" [this verse], and later when, after the sin of the Golden Calf, He tells him, "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy" (Exodus 33:19). God is free, and by making us in His image, He gave us also the power to be free. This, as the Torah makes clear, was God's most fateful gift. Given freedom, humans misuse it--as we noted earlier, Adam and Eve disobey God's command; Cain murders Abel. By the end of the parasha we find ourselves in the world before the Flood, filled with violence to the point where God regretted that He had ever created humanity. This is the central drama of Tanakh and of Judaism as a whole. Will we use our freedom to respect order or misuse it to create chaos? Will we honour or dishonour the image of God that lives within the human heart and mind?