The Golem Reimagined: Jewish Mysticism and Posthuman Identity in He She and It

Abstract

Jewish Mysticism is the spiritual and mythical secret of Judaism in which it gives understanding of God, through Kabbalah. Kabbalah a Mystical tradition in which Golem is created with the help of clay, mud using some magical chants to defend their own Jewish community. Golem and Yod Through the lens of posthuman theory and cyberpunk futurism, Marge Piercy's novel He, She, and It reimagines the Jewish Golem by blending technological theory with mystical tradition. Piercy spotlight to determined concerns about the limits of the human by placing the cyborg Yod next to the rabbinic Golem of Prague. In The novel, the character of Golem created under Kabbalistic ideas and the parallel character yod created under cybernetic programming. As both a machine and a human like, Golem and Yod's liminal existence highlights issues that are essential to posthuman, such as morality, consciousness, belonging and identity. This article examines the moral problem found in Jewish mysticism, and reevaluates them with the subject of artificial intelligence and cyborg, it attempts to find a solution in He, She, and It founded the Golem as a prototype for the posthuman, illustrating that how it defines “human” constantly haunted by other virtual replicas