# El Golem

An episode of [Filosofía, Psicología, Historias](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1533597906), 8 Apr 2024, 4:07.

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El golem es un ser subhumano que comparte las caracteríaticas de un ser humano, pero que no tiene alma.

## Transcript

[0:00] Welcome to another episode of philosophy, psychology stories. Today we are going to
[0:07] talk about the Golem, which is a kind of automaton man created by magical
[0:16] or artificial means, according to the Kabbalistic legend, and is a being created
[0:22] in competition with the creation of Adam, and this creation is realized by imitation
[0:28] of the divine creative act and can conflict with it. Golem is a mute
[0:31] being, since men are unable to give him the word. They can create
[0:37] it, just as God created Adam and Eve, but they cannot speak.
[0:42] In 19th century Jewish and German literature, many romantic authors saw the golem as
[0:48] a symbol of conflicts and lost combat. Gustave Marring writes the novel El Golem,
[0:57] where it appears as a symbolic image of the road to redemption. But
[1:02] where does this idea of Golem come from at a certain stage of his formation,
[1:07] before having received the breath of God and the word Adam was a gollen.
[1:11] In a text my drassic of the eleventh and third centuries, Adam is
[1:15] described not only as gollen, but as gollen of grandeur and cosmic force.
[1:22] And it is very interesting because the word is creative and this gollen is a
[1:27] created being that cannot create, unlike the human being, which is complete when
[1:34] carrying the word. The difference between a human being and a gollem is basically
[1:38] speech. This legendary Cabal being was imagined in many ways. The magicians who
[1:46] wanted to create them imitated God in Genesis using red clay, that is,
[1:53] making a statue of the size of a ten- year- old boy.
[1:57] Then they wrote on their forehead a Hebrew word meaning life, and instantly the
[2:01] golin was endowed with breathing and movement was a docile slave. He could be
[2:07] entrusted with hard work and never fatigued. Here' s another interesting differentiation.
[2:15] The human being can be free, but the golem can' t. Then
[2:19] they grow fast and reach the size of giants, but the Mao can kill
[2:24] him by putting on his forehead the Hebrew word meaning death, and then it
[2:30] will be a mass of clay again. Many times the magicians died crushed in
[2:34] this mass. But if this giant can' t be controlled, he'
[2:40] ll be able to do bad deeds. A cabalist could direct him to good,
[2:45] but also to evil. Sometimes it replaces a man or a woman or
[2:49] it takes the form of an animal. The golem does not fail to symbolize
[2:53] the creation of man who wants to imitate God by creating a being in his
[2:58] image, but who achieves nothing but a being without freedom, inclined to the
[3:04] evil slave of his passions, because in reality, the golem is not the
[3:07] image of the creator, but of one of the passions of the creator.
[3:13] It is a creation that surpasses its author, because passion is uncontrollable. And,
[3:19] since it was the word, the difference between the slave and the free
[3:25] being, I say goodbye with a phrase by Socrates that alludes. There is
[3:36] more knowledge than freedom, but many know that without knowledge there is no freedom.
[3:43] And that' s what this phrase says. Speak so that I can
[3:49] know you if you are interested in further deepening on what freedom is in the
[3:55] human being. You can acquire my book towards philosophy great freedom through Amazon or
[4:00] free market. We meet in the next episode.

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