Sam, we spoke about such references already. They are all about the same thing. Do you realize that Rashi is far from unique? Everyone has the same Pirush. And somehow, nobody (even your hero, R’ Moshe Taku) believes that Hashem is made out of something. What did Rashi think of a Neshama, is it more Ruchnius than it’s creator?
For some reason, you called my very common explanation, ‘explaining it away’, while actually, the other explanations are ‘explaining away’ the Pasuk and the Gemaros.
You don’t have to go back to Rashi to find this. We all, today, learn this exact explanation, all while knowing that there is no Guf ?”?. I showed you that Rashi, which says that there is no actual right and left of Hashem. Is that a mistake of Rashi? He forgot his ‘Shita’ for the moment?
Yechezkel Hanavi saw something. I can’t describe it (since he gave three qualifiers before describing it), but Chazal do say that the Neviim had the possibility of making out a form in reference to what is understood.
The Rambam says that a Navi goes higher and higher and understands and connects with lofty Tzuros. Now, we know that Hashem is one, no divisions. And yet, here we have a description of different Middos, Tzuros, Hashpaos, Oros, etc., that are organized. Although the Rambam famously shut out anything that would sound like Hagshama — forcing him to explain away Tzalmeinu — Chazal and the other Rishonim didn’t fight that fight and didn’t have that problem.
It is explained in many Sefarim, including the Rambam, that the world was created in the form of man. That everything follows the pattern of this Tzura. Although this is usually explained in the general sense (one head on top, heart etc.), it can go a lot further than it can be explained, down to a specific face resembling the creation more than another. This itself would suffice as a Pshat, but the Mekubalim (any Sefer, first to last, introduction to most advanced) say that the Middos of Hakadosh Baruch Hu that He set up to relate to us is also in the same pattern.
There are times, especially when it comes to Yesodos in Emuna, when instead of drawing drastic conclusions, we are supposed to look for answers.