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golem| In Jewish thought, anything that has a potential which has not yet been achieved. Adam is sometimes described as golem when he had been created from the Earth but God had not yet put breath in him. |
| In late medieval and particularly post-17th-century Jewish stories, certain holy rabbis were credited with the ability to make clay people who came alive as mechanical servants – golems – when certain letters forming one of the names of God were placed in their mouths or on their foreheads. |
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| The full-color art is cartoonish, but lovingly detailed; Sfar does an excellent job of populating her world with a variety of bizarre, outlandish creatures such as golems, mandragoras, tree-men, ghosts, shades, goat-creatures, witches and putty monsters. A cartoon in three-dimensional form, Paris-based Chinese expatriate Wang Du's recent exhibition at Vancouver Art Gallery took the form of a misshapen array of bellicose and lascivious golems cultivated from Chinese military propaganda, Internet porn, and the Western print media. According to Jewish mysticism, one can bring golems, clay monsters, to life by writing the name of G-d on their foreheads, then return them to earth by erasing the name. |