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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Zamir Cohen’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

First things first and last things last. And what he hasn't heard, he says, "I haven't heard." And admits the truth. The opposite of such a person is a gollum. Why is the opposite of a wise person called a golem? What does the word golem even mean? In the natural world, we find the word golem in the life cycle of a butterfly. At first, the caterpillar hatches from the egg. Then it enters the cocoon stage called a golem in Hebrew. cocoon stage called a golem in Hebrew. And only afterward does it emerge as a butterfly. That's why the Hebrew word for butterfly par hints at this process. Par to burst forth and param again referring to bursting forth first from the egg then from the cocoon. So golem means something with potential that has not yet reached its final form. When we say raw material in Hebrew, we mean material that can be developed into something. that can be developed into something. But right now, it's still unshaped, unrefined. The sages use the term golem to describe a person who has potential but hasn't yet brought it to expression. It's not meant as an insult or mockery, the way people casually insult someone today by calling them a golem. The sages use the term with depth and precision. a person who doesn't yet know how to express themselves, who hasn't yet matured, they're still in a raw form, not fully

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