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from the forehead of his Golem, which returned to dust, but the Golem scratched his master's face in the process. An anonymous 1630 manuscript (the earliest known written legend of a contemporary figure creating a golem) recounts that the golem continued to grow that the rabbi had to destroy it by
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that was in the coffin , the church sank together with the hooligans. The rabbi then lay back and became rigid as a corpse again. The Jews stared at each other in astonishment and the funeral procession continued. From this time forward, it was said that the hooligans no longer threw rocks during
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Although Emden only mentions a scratch on the rabbi's face, a different version of the legend states that while trying to remove the life-giving name of God in an attempt to destroy the raging beast, Rabbi Elijah was crushed to death under the weight of the Golem as it fell to pieces.
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When the local landowner found out about the golem's might, the Ba'al Shem led the golem to the attic, withdrew from him the ineffable name of God, and converted the golem into a heap of clay. The Ba'al Shem locked the door, took with him the key, and since then the attic remained
267:(Jewish elementary school) of a teacher named Leib Paks claimed that in the cellar, when jumping on the floor boards, the muffled ring of a bell sound could be heard. This led the children to believe that that was the very same spot where the church had sunk. 77:, and after receiving his rabbinical ordination, became rabbi of Chełm, a position he held for the rest of his life. In 1564, he gathered with other prominent rabbis, including his teacher, to cosign the halachic rulings, which allowed an 254:
Elijah's wishes were carried out after his death. When the procession neared the church, gentiles began their ritual of pelting the coffin and the Jews with rocks, Elijah miraculously sat up and, after looking into the
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According to popular legend, Elijah's greatness was witnessed in dramatic fashion soon after his death. It was said that during his time, the only road to the Jewish cemetery passed by a Russian church. Whenever a
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It was said that Elijah Ba'al Shem created from clay a golem who would stand on market days with an ax in his hand, and as soon as he saw that a peasant was going to beat up a Jew, the golem killed the
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procession passed by, Christians would throw rocks. Elijah knew of this and requested in his will that no one move or run away if the Christians did the same following his death.
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would appear on the anniversary of his death and etch a letter on a certain brick. Because of this, everyone was afraid to touch the bricks.
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came to besiege Jerusalem, one of Dolberger's family members who was among them rescued Jews in Palestine and carried them back to
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An entire week the golem served the Rabbi, the Rabbi's wife, and he performed the manual labor in the Beit Hamidrash .
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to repay the favor. Further evidence of German communities in the holy city comes in the form of
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questions sent from Germany to Jerusalem during the second half of the eleventh century.
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His great-granddaughter married Rabbi Ephraim ha-Kohen (1616–1678), author of "
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Elijah was born to his father Aaron Judah in 1550. About 1565, he entered the
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Elijah's grandsons, Tzvi Ashkenazi and his son Jacob Emden, were both great
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The tale about Elijah's creation of the Golem was retold in the book
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Languages of Community: The Jewish Experience in the Czech. Lands.
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during the 11th century. The story is told that a German-speaking
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Israel der Gotteskampfer der Baalschem von Chełm und sein Golem
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which was covered in bricks arranged in the shape of the
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Within the Chełm cemetery, there was a grave without a
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Index

Elijah Ba'al Shem of Chelm
rabbi
kabbalist
chief rabbi
Chełm
Ba'al Shem
golem
yeshiva
Solomon Luria
Lublin
agunah
Tzvi Ashkenazi
Jacob Emden
Hebrew letter
aleph
Halakhists
minyan
Chayim Block
Synagogue
German Jews
Jerusalem
Palestinian Jew
surnamed
knights
First Crusade
Worms, Germany
halakhic
Jewish funeral
Torah scroll
tombstone

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