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We Rabbis Don’t Make Golems for the Money — We Do It Because It’s Awesome

We Rabbis Don’t Make Golems for the Money – We do it because it’s awesome (Aharon Varady after Steg), a derivative of this historic image from 1866


This here meme I rolled this evening was inspired by this historic image from 1866, along with an earlier meme generated by Steg sometime more than a decade ago and shared on the icanhascheezburger.com website. The timestamp on the copy of his image macro (which I preserved for posterity) dates to hoary 2012, but I have a feeling I saw it earlier than that, perhaps in 2010 or even in more eldritch years.

To learn more concerning golems, please consult Moshe Idel’s work, Golem: Jewish Magical and Mystical Traditions on the Artificial Anthropoid (SUNY Press 1990).

Inspiration

We Rabbis Don’t Make Golems for the Money – We do it because it’s awesome (Steg, ca. 2010)

About Aharon N. Varady


Aharon's Omphalos is the hobbit hole of Aharon Varady, founding director of the Open Siddur Project. He is a community planner and environmental educator working to improve stewardship of the Public Domain, be it the physical and natural commons of urban park systems or the creative and cultural commons of libraries and museums. His advocacy for open-source strategies in the Jewish community has been written about in the Atlantic Magazine, the Yiddish Forverts, Tablet, and Haaretz. He is particularly interested in pedagogies for advancing ecological wisdom, developing creative and emotional intelligence, and realizing effective theurgical praxes. He welcomes your comments, personal messages, and kind words. If you find his work helpful to your own or you'd simply like to support him, please consider donating via his Patreon account.

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