Page "Golem" Paragraph 27

The Jewish Encyclopedia of 1906 gives David Gans, a disciple of the Maharal, as a source for the story, citing his historical work Zemach David, published in 1592.

In it, Gans writes of an audience between the Maharal and Rudolph II: " Our lord the emperor … Rudolph … sent for and called upon our master Rabbi Low ben Bezalel and received him with a welcome and merry expression, and spoke to him face to face, as one would to a friend.

The nature and quality of their words are mysterious, sealed and hidden.

" But it has been said of this passage, " Even when Maharal is eulogized, whether in David Gans ’ Zemach David or on his epitaph …, not a word is said about the creation of a golem.

No Hebrew work published in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries ( even in Prague ) is aware that the Maharal created a golem.

" Furthermore, the Maharal himself did not refer to the Golem in his writings.

Rabbi Yedidiah Tiah Weil ( 1721 – 1805 ), a Prague resident, who described the creation of golems, including those created by Rabbi Avigdor Kara of Prague, did not mention the Maharal, and Rabbi Meir Perels ' biography of the Maharal published in 1718 does not mention a golem.