Legend says that Rabbi Judah Loew
successfully created a golem.
Texts of the Kabbalah,
beginning with the Book of Formation,
claim that the letters of the Hebrew alphabet
contain the powers of creation.
With the right combination,
man could grant life,
as God did to Adam.
I mold the dirt into a corpse-like shape
and on his forehead
I inscribe: ’emeth.