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  2. Golem - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Jewish folklore - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Jewish mythology - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Creation of life from clay - Wikipedia

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    Creation of Adam from a block of clay in the Great Canterbury Psalter. Khnum (right) is a creator god who forms humans and gods out of clay. Here Isis (left) gives life. The creation of life from clay can be seen as a miraculous birth theme that appears throughout world religions and mythologies. It can also be seen as one of gods who craft ...

  6. Category:Jewish legendary creatures - Wikipedia

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  7. Jewish mysticism - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. History of Jewish mysticism - Wikipedia

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    Jewish mysticism has influenced the thought of some major Jewish theologians, philosophers, writers and thinkers in the 20th century, outside of Kabbalistic or Hasidic traditions. The first Chief Rabbi of Mandate Palestine, Abraham Isaac Kook was a mystical thinker who drew heavily on Kabbalistic notions through his own poetic terminology. His ...

  9. Shedim - Wikipedia

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    Shedim (Hebrew: שֵׁדִים; singular: שֵׁד Sheyd) [3] are spirits or demons in the Tanakh and Jewish mythology. Shedim do not, however, correspond exactly to the modern conception of demons as evil entities as originated in Christianity. [4] While evil spirits were thought to be the cause of maladies, shedim differed conceptually from ...