Joel Thomas
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first heard Jun 2026
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Well, they get even further into trying to understand the golem.
Does it have a soul?
Does it not have a soul?
And we start getting into some very interesting writings by a guy named Rabbi Eliud.
And Eliyahu talks about that as long as the power of the intellect does not illuminate the infant, he is mute, being unable to speak.
And if a man will create a creature, a golem by the divine names, we're talking about that, and the holy letters mentioned in the Sephirot Zerah, the golem will have a figure with the appearance of a man shaped out of matters, having even a soul with all the powers and senses.
So it wasn't a...
a set thing, as a lot of Kabbalists will say now, that the golem doesn't have a soul.
No, there were arguments over the golem having a soul.
There was arguments on whether or not the golem was actually Jewish and could be a part of Jewish customs if they were created to do so.
So it goes a little bit further, and I'm going to tie it up here, where
Moshe Edel, and he was a philosopher of Jewish mysticism, and he's still alive to this day.
He gets into the idea that the golem is actually, and you're going to like this, the creation of the golem is the form of transition for the creator.
So if you create the golem, your soul transcends because now you have become a god.
And he says that when you wield this creative power, that it takes you to this
next level of transcendence because of this creation of the animation of it.
Because now you have done something that only God could do.
And I thought that was interesting because he even ties it into modern mystics and magicians who are trying to do the same thing.
So you brought up Epstein.
There are many other occultists also that have tried to perform the same thing.
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