Judaism declares that the concept of "God" is completely superior to material reality and human understanding. Nevertheless, the Torah and Siddur (standard Jewish prayer book) are filled with concrete images.
God goes to “walk into the garden,” although God has no legs. God "extends his right hand," although God does not have a weapon. God "speaks", "smells like a pleasant smell" and "hears their cry"; but has no mouth, nose, or ears. God is described as “memorizing” things and possessing human emotions, but without brains. God is called “Father,” but has no genitals.
These images are not limited to human features. God's “wings” cast a “shadow”, but God is not a bird. God "raises his horn," but not a ram.
In the Jewish tradition, these divine concessions to limited human capacities for understanding and communication should not imply limitations on the personal concept of God. In fact, traditional Jewish restrictions require a lack of materiality.
In the Jewish tradition, God is neither male nor female. God has all the intangible aspects of both material and material aspects. But for Jewish nouns there is no neutral sex. Breast - men. Woman's hands. God (as a noun, not as an entity) is a man. (However, there are some mystical liturgical texts that directly refer to God in the feminine aspect. A notable example is "Ka-gav-na-di-nun", which is read in the orthodontics of Sephardic shuly on Friday evening.)
We sense the inadequacy of the human language in general (and even the human mind) in order to accurately express or contain the Jewish divine idea and, therefore, the totality of ideas in the Torah. All humanly expressed ideas of God are limited metaphors for what contains them all.
