Martin Buber
When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.
Eliezer Berkovits, Faith after the Holocaust, p. 64
The hiding God is present; though man is unaware of him, He is present in his hiddenness. Therefore, God can only hide in this world. But if this world were altogether and radically profane, there would be no place in it for Him to hide. He can only hide in history. Since history is man's responsibility, one would, in fact, expect him to hide, to be silent, while man goes about his God-given task. Responsibility requires freedom, but God's convincing presence would undermine the freedom of human decision. God hides in human responsibility and human freedom.
Rabbi David Wolpe
God says to Moses “You cannot see my face, for man may not see Me and live” (Exodus 33:20). Perhaps the message is that we grow gradually more intimate with God’s face as we get older. When we glimpse as much as it is given to us as individuals to glimpse, we are through with our earthly mission. Moses died when he had at last seen God face to face. That is in some sense our task in life — to see God truly according to our capacity. When we have fulfilled that task, we are through. Some of us see God’s face in the eyes of those whom we love. Others find it in the wonders of nature. Some see God in sacred books, or in ritual practices or in a mysterious but intense inner light. At different times in our lives all of these manifestations of God’s face may appear to us.
"Hence, dignity can only be predicated of kerygmatic man, who has the capability of establishing lines of communication with neighbors, acquaintances, and friends, and of engaging them in a dialogue, not of words, but of action...Adam the first exists in society, in community with others. He is a social being, gregarious, communicative...Man in solitude has no opportunity to display his dignity and majesty, since both are behavioral social traits. Adam the first was not left alone even on the day of creation. He emerged into the world together with Eve and God addressed himself to both of them as inseparable members of one community...
...Adam the second must quest for a different kind of community...His quest is for a new kind of fellowship, which one finds in the existential community. There not only hands are joined, but experiences as well...there, one lonely soul finds another lonely soul tormented by loneliness and solitude yet unqualifiedly committed.
--Joseph B. Soleveitchik, The Lonely Man of Faith