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	An anomalous Genesis: metaphor and implication in the creation of the golem-like metahumans
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	Story Behind the Song Golems can be created using many different methods, according to the sources. Some state that it is accomplished through combinations of letters. These combinations are called "gates", the number of gates differing according to the various Kabbalistic schools, and ranging in number from 231 to as many as 271, depending on how the letters are to be combined. (The gates were formed by combining every letter of the Hebrew alphabet to every other letter. The analogy in the Roman Alphabet would be to begin with AB, AC, AD, AE, and so on, until reaching ZV, ZW, ZX, ZY. In most systems of gates, letters are not combined with themselves.) Other schools taught that a golem was created through the utterance of Divine Names. The Talmud records that there are 12, 42, and even 72 letter names of God that might have been used for this purpose. Lyrics Many schools, such as the Hasidim, held that the Hebrew word 'emet (truth) should be inscribed upon the forehead of the golem. Among a number of methods of deconstructing a golem, a common one was the erasure of the aleph, the first letter of 'emet. This leaves the word met (dead) which destroys the golem

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