![]() ![]() The Emperor begged Rabbi Loew to deactivate the golem, which he agreed to do on the condition that the Emperor stopped persecuting the Jews. The golem spread fear by attacking and killing all those who sought to do harm to the Jews. Rabbi Juddah Loew ben Bezalel, the chief rabbi of Prague, created and brought to life a golem, in order to protect his people. ![]() ![]() The legend states that in the 16th century CE, the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II had decided to expel or kill Prague's Jews. The most famous golem story is that of the Golem of Prague. ![]() To deactivate it, the rabbi would erase the letter aleph, leaving met, the Hebrew word for "death".ĭepiction of Rabbi Loew and the Golem of Prague. Other versions say that the rabbi would write the Hebrew word emet, meaning "truth", on the golem's forehead to activate it. Some versions say that the rabbi would need to write a series of letters of the Aleph-bet on a piece of parchment and put it in the golem's mouth. Legends vary on the precise way in which a rabbi would bring a golem to life, although Hebrew incantations would usually be involved. The idea of creating and bringing to life a clay man is probably taken from Genesis, in which G-d forms Adam from clay and breathes life into him. The Hebrew word golem appears only once in the Tanakh, in Psalm 139:16, where it is used to mean "unshaped form" or "embryo". 2 Activating a golem, according to legend. ![]()
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