In Jewish folklore, there are three reasons to create a golem-- as a way to show one's mastery of the Kabbalah, to have a trustworthy and dependable servant for labor, or to provide protection for ...

Two titans of mystical Judaism battle it out as we figure out who would win, the clay-based golem or the possession-capable dybbuk? This all comes to you as part of Polygon’s Who Would Win Week.

The Golem of Brooklyn By Adam Mansbach One World, 272 pages, $18. No creature from Jewish folklore has made as sizable a literary dent as the Golem.

Might a golem help make a minyan? Over 300 years ago, a rabbi considered the question, now cited in countless discussions about the implications of artificial intelligence and Judaism.

Some critics suggest that the Frankenstein monster was named after Jacob Frank who, at the time that Shelley wrote her novel, was perhaps not only the dominant issue in the Jewish world of Eastern ...

A 21st-century golem tackles US white nationalism in modern retelling of Jewish myth In darkly comic novel ‘The Golem of Brooklyn,’ author Adam Mansbach sets a nine-foot clay creature hurtling ...

The golem is necessary because no victory is permanent — and because when the reversal comes, it can be swift and deadly. History has seared this lesson into the Jewish people.

ChatGPT is no more alive than the legendary golem of Prague. It is said that the Maharal — the great Rabbi Judah Loew of 16th-century Prague — fashioned a magical creature of river mud in ...

In Jewish folklore, there are three reasons to create a golem-- as a way to show one's mastery of the Kabbalah, to have a trustworthy and dependable servant for labor, or to provide protection for ...