What is the Golem?

Question

heard they were clay giants in Hebrew Mythology.

Answer 1

A Golem is a mythical creature that a rabbi can mold out of clay and writes the Name and brings it to life. It chases the enemy away and protects our people.

Answer 2

I don't know the whole story with the Golem of the Maharal, but I dont' know that basically the Maharal - a great Rabbi sometime either after or before the Holocaust - created the Golem out of clay using the Kabala, and making him alive by putting a band around his head bearing the forbiden 72 letter name that only the greatest rabbis of every generation know. The Maharal created the Golem in order to help fight off the nazis some time or other (sorry but I'm not aware of the full story).

After the Golem had served its purpose, the Maharal put him in the attic of his shul/synagogue/temple and burried him with many holy books which blocked sight of him completely. Before the Maharal passed he gave the job to another rabbi (forgot his name of any of the details of this story) to every day add a holy book to the pile existing that buried the Golem, which miraculously stayed the same height over the years that he did this. After a few years, a couple of nazis broke into the shul and searched for treasure (or something like that). The rabbi warned them not to go up to the attic as they made to do so, and they didn't listen. They saw the pile of holy books and the rabbi warned them not to touch it. One of the nazis stabbed the pile with the knife attached to his gun, and he emmidiately fell dead on the spot. The other nazi made to run away but died too.

Until this day the attic remain untouched somewhere.

Answer 3

Actually they only start out as clay, in talmudic legend a golem starts of as a mass of clay, then a scroll with the name of G-D (the full 72 letter name known only to a few people world wide) is inserted into its mouth then over a short period of time they clay becomes shaped like a human then grows a shell of human skin (so you cant tell them from everyone else) Golems can only follow orders and have no will of their own they can't speak or eat. If a golem is hit with a heavy object it will break like a vase and wont just fall down like a human.

Answer 4

An animated creature made entirely of inanimate materials. Created by magic, entirely to serve its creator. In Hebrew, "golem" stands for "shapeless mass." The Talmud uses the word as "unformed" or "imperfect" and according to Talmudic legend, Adam is called "golem," meaning "body without a soul" for the first 12 hours of his existance.
The golem appears in other places in the Talmud as well. One legend says the prophet Jeremiah made a golem However, some mystics believe the creation of a golem has symbolic meaning only, like a spiritual experience following a religious rite.
The Sefer Yezirah ("Book of Creation"), often referred to as a guide to magical usage by some Western European Jews in the Middle Ages, contains instructions on how to make a golem. Several rabbis, in their commentaries on Sefer Yezirah have come up with different understandings of the directions on how to make a golem. Most versions include shaping the golem into a figure resembling a human being and using God's name to bring him to life, since God is the ultimate creator of life..
According to one story, to make a golem come alive, one would shape it out of soil, and then walk or dance around it saying combination of letters from the alphabet and the secret name of God. To "kill" the golem, its creators would walk in the opposite direction saying and making the order of the words backwards.

Answer 5

I think Batman lives there.