(יג) וַיֹּאמֶר מֹשֶׁה אֶל הָאֱלֹהִים:
הִנֵּה אָנֹכִי בָא אֶל בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל
וְאָמַרְתִּי לָהֶם,
"אֱלֹהֵי אֲבוֹתֵיכֶם שְׁלָחַנִי
אֲלֵיכֶם, וְאָמְרוּ לִי,
'מַה שְּׁמוֹ?'
מָה אֹמַר אֲלֵהֶם?"
(13) Moses said to God:
Look, when I come to the Israelites and say to them,
"The God of your ancestors has sent me
to you, they are going to ask me,
'What is God's name?'
What should I tell them?"
(יד) וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים אֶל מֹשֶׁה:
"אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה."
וַיֹּאמֶר,
"כֹּה תֹאמַר לִבְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל,
אֶהְיֶה שְׁלָחַנִי אֲלֵיכֶם."
(14) God said to Moses:
"I WILL BE THAT I WILL BE."
And God said,
"So shall you say to the Israelites,
I AM has sent me to you."
וַיִּבְרָ֨א אֱלֹהִ֤ים ׀ אֶת־הָֽאָדָם֙ בְּצַלְמ֔וֹ בְּצֶ֥לֶם אֱלֹהִ֖ים בָּרָ֣א אֹת֑וֹ זָכָ֥ר וּנְקֵבָ֖ה בָּרָ֥א אֹתָֽם׃
And God created man in His image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
Rabbi Toba Spitzer, "God in Metaphor: A Guider for the Perplexed"
What I've come to understand in recent years is that the “God problem” that so many people have—the difficulty of believing in or even taking seriously the notion of some kind of all-powerful, all-knowing Being that interacts with us in mysterious ways—is not really a problem with God. Rather, it's a reaction to a metaphor, or a set of metaphors, that have come to dominate our thinking about God. What is sad about this is that once upon a time, our ancestors employed a rich palette of metaphors to shape their experience of the Divine, metaphors that spoke directly to their everyday experiences. My hope is that we can recapture the alive-ness which once pervaded our holy texts, and reconstruct our metaphors so that they are once again engaging and meaningful.
https://www.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/god-metaphor-guide-perplexed
What I've come to understand in recent years is that the “God problem” that so many people have—the difficulty of believing in or even taking seriously the notion of some kind of all-powerful, all-knowing Being that interacts with us in mysterious ways—is not really a problem with God. Rather, it's a reaction to a metaphor, or a set of metaphors, that have come to dominate our thinking about God. What is sad about this is that once upon a time, our ancestors employed a rich palette of metaphors to shape their experience of the Divine, metaphors that spoke directly to their everyday experiences. My hope is that we can recapture the alive-ness which once pervaded our holy texts, and reconstruct our metaphors so that they are once again engaging and meaningful.
https://www.reconstructingjudaism.org/article/god-metaphor-guide-perplexed