Rather, what He so much despises is anything we might place between Himself and us. And that is idolatry—the acknowledgment of anything or anybody else in our relationship. For such a union, there is no other metaphor in all the physical world but the metaphor of the physical union of two lovers."[G‑d] desired to use a bodily union as metaphor because this is the ultimate union, a union in which there cannot be any intermediary. It is even stronger when they are intertwined in embrace, as in the verse, "Rejoice in the wife of your youth" (Proverbs 5:18). All this is to express that His bond with us is a great and mighty bond without any intermediary …and this is impossible to communicate through any other metaphor" (Rabbenu Bachya on Exodus 25). As the words of Genesis, “G‑d made Adam in His image, male and female He created them.”