The Golem and the Covert Magic Secret War of Israel
The Monster of Fate
In Jewish folklore, a golem is an animated being created entirely from inanimate matter, usually clay, and given life through magic.
It is said that in the 16th century, a European scholar, Rabbi Jehuda Löw ben Bezalel of Prague, began creating golems for Golems to protect the local Jewish community and to exploit them as his servants, molding them from the clay of the Vltava mud and awakening them by writing the word “truth” (Hebrew: אמת?, mṯ) on their foreheads.
The key to making this magic work, according to legend, was to inscribe the Hebrew word “emet” or “aemaeth” (God’s truth).
The magician would occasionally decide to get rid of the larger golems, changing the word on their foreheads to “dead” (Hebrew: מת [met]); but one day he lost control of a giant, who began to destroy everything in his path.
The golem, not as a deity but as a sort of angel, whose nature in the Qabbalah is secret, but created by the master capable of uniting its spiritual power to the Will of God, is said to have also worked to defend some Jewish communities in Eastern Europe.
Having regained control of the situation, the magician decided to stop using the golems, which he hid in the attic of the Old-New Synagogue, in the heart of the old Jewish quarter, where, according to legend, they are still found today.
This Golem had a major flaw: it continued to grow until it became dangerous.
The rabbi lost control of the Golem and recovered it only after some adventures; he therefore decided to lock it lifeless in the attic of the Synagogue to avoid further damage.
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