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Details. Protector of the Jewish community, created from clay or mud, animated through mystical rituals. A golem (/ ˈɡoʊləm / GOH-ləm; Hebrew: גּוֹלֶם, romanized: gōlem) is an animated anthropomorphic being in Jewish folklore, which is created entirely from inanimate matter, usually clay or mud.
Pages in category "Jewish legendary creatures" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
e. Jewish mythology is the body of myths associated with Judaism. Elements of Jewish mythology have had a profound influence on Christian mythology and on Islamic mythology, as well as on Abrahamic culture in general. [1] Christian mythology directly inherited many of the narratives from the Jewish people, sharing in common the narratives from ...
The Qur'an (Qur'an 23:12), [18] states, "Man We did create from a quintessence of clay" [A. Yusuf Ali translation]. In Jewish folklore, a golem (Hebrew: גולם) is an animated anthropomorphic being that is created entirely from inanimate matter, usually clay or mud. [19]
Jewish folklore. Jewish folklore are legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and customs that are the traditions of Judaism. Folktales are characterized by the presence of unusual personages, by the sudden transformation of men into beasts and vice versa, or by other unnatural incidents.
Jewish mysticism. Academic study of Jewish mysticism, especially since Gershom Scholem 's Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (1941), draws distinctions between different forms of mysticism which were practiced in different eras of Jewish history. Of these, Kabbalah, which emerged in 12th-century southwestern Europe, is the most well known, but it ...
In some Jewish folklore, such as the Alphabet of Sirach (c. 700–1000 AD), Lilith appears as Adam's first wife, who was created at the same time and from the same clay as Adam. [ a ] The legend of Lilith developed extensively during the Middle Ages , in the tradition of Aggadah , the Zohar , and Jewish mysticism . [ 15 ]
The Legends of the Jews is a chronological compilation of aggadah from hundreds of biblical legends in Mishnah, Talmud and Midrash. The compilation consists of seven volumes (four volumes of narrative texts and two volumes of footnotes with a volume of index) synthesized by Louis Ginzberg in a manuscript written in the German language.