Post by kriss on Apr 3, 2024 12:30:47 GMT -5
In Jewish literature, a golem is a manmade, human-like creature endowed with a rudimentary form of life. According to certain accounts, golems were created by saintly individuals to protect the Jewish community from blood libels and other anti-Semitic agitations, most notably in 16th-century Prague. How much credence should be given to these stories? And how does golem-creating differ from sorcery and black magic, both of which are forbidden by Torah law?
What Is a Golem?
In its most basic meaning, a golem is an unfinished ball of clay or block of wood, requiring carving and chiseling to become a functional utensil.1 It is also used to refer to a simpleton or boor with undeveloped intellect and emotions or crude behavior.2 In our context, a golem is a humanoid creature, who, rather than being born from parents, was made from scratch—in much the same way as Adam was fashioned from the earth
Playing God?
But is it indeed possible for one human to create another? Isn’t that a Godly feat, beyond the capabilities of beings themselves created by God?
Our sages tell us that the world was created with 10 Divine utterances.
The Kabbalists take this a step further, explaining that each entity in existence was created via a unique combination of supernal “letters”—specific expressions of Divine creative energy. The precise qualities and makeup of any given creation are the direct result of the precise arrangement of these spiritual powers, as designated by God during the six days of creation.5
Now, what if a person of exceptional piety and high spiritual caliber could harness these Divine “letters,” combining them so as to create the entity of his choice? Many sources indicate that this is indeed a possibility. The consensus of opinions is that while special tzaddikim may have the ability to create human-like creatures, the ability to invest a soul within a body is unique to God. A Man-made men are not viewed as full-fledged humans and are subhuman at best.....
The article on this also brought up that Lab made meat Interestingly, this discussion may have practical applications today. While not quite created from scratch, cultured meat—meat developed in a laboratory—is strikingly similar
I was thinking this brings to mind the cloning of animals or humans and may well answer the question that a clone (man made human or animal) does not possess a soul.
However perhaps more significant to bible student might this be an the explanation for the Image of Rev 13 ?[/u]
We are told to make a image (likeness)
If we use our types in Danial and/or history this image is a clay statue
We are then told in Rev the false prophet makes it breathe and speak might he use the same type of "divine words or combination of letters"
that an individual of high spiritual knowledge of the ancient kabbalah might utter ...
Remembering here that False Prophet AC are supernatural performing false signs and wonders surely Satan/Lucifer in his playing god knows the divine words/letters to cause this clay image (Golem) to speak
Rev 13:14 And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived.
15 He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.
What Is a Golem?
In its most basic meaning, a golem is an unfinished ball of clay or block of wood, requiring carving and chiseling to become a functional utensil.1 It is also used to refer to a simpleton or boor with undeveloped intellect and emotions or crude behavior.2 In our context, a golem is a humanoid creature, who, rather than being born from parents, was made from scratch—in much the same way as Adam was fashioned from the earth
Playing God?
But is it indeed possible for one human to create another? Isn’t that a Godly feat, beyond the capabilities of beings themselves created by God?
Our sages tell us that the world was created with 10 Divine utterances.
The Kabbalists take this a step further, explaining that each entity in existence was created via a unique combination of supernal “letters”—specific expressions of Divine creative energy. The precise qualities and makeup of any given creation are the direct result of the precise arrangement of these spiritual powers, as designated by God during the six days of creation.5
Now, what if a person of exceptional piety and high spiritual caliber could harness these Divine “letters,” combining them so as to create the entity of his choice? Many sources indicate that this is indeed a possibility. The consensus of opinions is that while special tzaddikim may have the ability to create human-like creatures, the ability to invest a soul within a body is unique to God. A Man-made men are not viewed as full-fledged humans and are subhuman at best.....
The article on this also brought up that Lab made meat Interestingly, this discussion may have practical applications today. While not quite created from scratch, cultured meat—meat developed in a laboratory—is strikingly similar
I was thinking this brings to mind the cloning of animals or humans and may well answer the question that a clone (man made human or animal) does not possess a soul.
However perhaps more significant to bible student might this be an the explanation for the Image of Rev 13 ?[/u]
We are told to make a image (likeness)
If we use our types in Danial and/or history this image is a clay statue
We are then told in Rev the false prophet makes it breathe and speak might he use the same type of "divine words or combination of letters"
that an individual of high spiritual knowledge of the ancient kabbalah might utter ...
Remembering here that False Prophet AC are supernatural performing false signs and wonders surely Satan/Lucifer in his playing god knows the divine words/letters to cause this clay image (Golem) to speak
Rev 13:14 And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived.
15 He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.