My 30th Great Grandfather Rabbi Löw And His Little Mystery From Rudolphin Prague

MaHaRal mi Prag, aka Rabbi Jehuda ben Becallel Löw came to Prague in r. 1573. Before that, he was a rabbi in Mikulov, founded a talmudic school here and became its rector. In Prague he stayed in 1584 and supposedly produced golem here in 1580. He left the threshold twice. He once spent time in Poland, when he became a school rector in Poznan and the Earth Rabbi of the Empire of Velkopolsky. He finally returned and became the Prague top rabbi in 1597. Tradition tells that he controlled all of the previous scientific fields, he prefers to have alchemy, astronomy, astrology, mathematics and physics. He’s attributed to the deep knowledge of the Cabal. The rabbi said – apart from golem production – he could turn the lumps, rocks and mud that was throwing at him into fresh flowers. He owned the laterna magic lamp, which he was projecting the movable images of the smoke column. Emperor Rudolf in one remote room of Prague Castle “magically” the image of Hradčan and the characters of the Jewish patriarchs – Abraham, Isaac, Jakub and his sons of Judah, Ruben, Simeon and others. The condition was that none of the present can laugh. But when the ridiculous character of Jacob’s son of Naphthali appeared, the emperor couldn’t hold, laughing and the cloud disappeared. At that point, the ceiling began to fall to the horror present. The Rabbi’s instruction stopped, but he never returned to the original height. No one has stepped foot in the hall since. He has prepared another illusion to visit the Emperor in his house. The Rabbi house was small and unsightly, but when the Emperor entered, he saw spacious and exhibition halls that couldn’t fit into the rabbi house. Whether it has been done or not, Rabbi Löw was known in his time not only in the Jewish world as a great scholar. He maintained personal friendly relations with Tychon de Brahe and other personalities that Rudolphin Prague attracted to him. He preferred the study of talmudic springs than the fashion studies of halachic codes such as Maimonid’s Mishne Tora or Tur Asher ben Jechiel. He was allegedly an exceptional educator who taught his pupils according to their options and needs, not according to the specified curriculum. “The fools today teach the boy to read the Bible with Rashi’s comment they do not understand, and Talmud, who cannot understand,” he was supposed to be words to the address of the teaching system at the time. There are disputes about his approach to the Cabal. According to SH. J. Rapaporta did not devote himself to the Cabal, according to Gershom Scholem, even considers it predecessor to Chasidism. In the middle of the studio and comments of Rabbi Löw, there are ethics that have devoted several files. He also dealt with the system and the way of education. From here, there is probably speculation about knowing his works and inspired another great teacher Jan Amos Komenský.