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August 19, 2020
A Fanciful Love Story about the Real Rabbi Who Created the Legendary Golem
The Maharal, and Perl.
While Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel of Prague (d. 1609), known by the Hebrew acronym Maharal, is most famous today because of the legend that he used kabbalistic magic to create a golem that could defend the Jews of his city from anti-Semites, his real legacy consists of his towering achievements as a talmudist, philosopher, mystic, and leader of one of the world’s largest Jewish communities. The golem legend stems from a popular Hebrew work, published in Poland in 1909, that record various stories about the Maharal’s wondrous doings. Zack Rothbart recounts one of these—concerning the rabbi’s wife, Perl.
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A Fanciful Love Story about the Real Rabbi Who Created the Legendary Golem
The Maharal, and Perl.