The Golem of Prague – Frank N. Stein Legend

 

 

One of the most famous legends of Mystical superpowers is the Golem of Prague, which was created by the great Mystic rabbi, the Maharal of Prague.  The Golem was a monster, which was something like Frankenstein’s monster, and would protect the Jewish community from harm. 

This Golem has also been created by several other rabbis, including the Vilna Gaon. 

The problem with all these stories is that there is no evidence, either of there having been such a monster, or that Jews were protected from pogroms by such a creation.

If every great Rabbi in each generation, who studied Kabbalah, could really create such a monster, then there would surely be evidence. There would be records of how it repelled attackers. The monster would have fought off the Romans, after all Shimon Bar Yochai, the alleged author of the Zohar, was the quintessential Kabbalist. Instead, he had to hide in a cave for 40 years as the Romans pillaged the Jews of Israel. The same would apply to the crusades, the Inquisition, the pogroms, the Holocaust, and even Arab terror.

Yet, nothing like this happened.  Jews have been massacred by Christians and Arabs for the last 2000 years, and this has only been reduced, partially, by the military hardware of the IDF, which is also not perfect.

A more credible explanation is that the legend of the Golem belongs to the same class of fiction as that produced by Jerry Siegel and  Joe Shuster, creators of the Superman comic.