A Rosh Hashanah Reflection on Zionism

Some time in the 16th or 17th centuries a legend developed about one of the greatest Rabbis in Jewish history, the Maharal of Prague, Judah Loew ben Bezalel (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Hebrew</a>: יהודה ליווא בן בצלאל; between 1512 and 1526–17 September 1609). The tale, which is well known, tells of how the Jewish ghetto in Prague was besieged by anti-semitic hoodlums. The bookish, scholarly Jews had no defenders, so the Maharal summoned his knowledge of Kabbalah (Jewish esoteric mysticism and magic) to help. Making a humanoid out of clay, in a bold act of imitatio dei he brought it to life as God had brought the earth to life in the garden of Eden, sealing the creature’s forehead with a name of God, Emet (Truth). <a href="https://matthewzgindin.medium.com/a-rosh-hashanah-reflection-on-zionism-1324da3bb9dc">Click Here</a>