A golem, a rabbi from Poznań and a Masonic lost word.

Łazęga Poznańska, 1 October 2025

Meeting with Dr. Pawel Fijałkowski from the judaic Historical Institute in Warsaw

We invitation you to the gathering on 22 October (Wednesday) at 6 p.m. in the friendly interiors of Atelier Wimar Łazęga Poznańska. The full title of the lecture is “Golem, Poznań rabbi Jehuda ben Becall Loew and Masonic lost word”.

The lost word is “she ha-mephorus”, meaning literally: a name separated, clearly given or a name demanding clarification. They were originally identified with a Tetragrammaton, later besides with God’s name encoded in Exodus 14, 19–21, and even with the full Torah. This concept was promoted by cabalists who tried to influence the planet utilizing divine and angelic names. These included cabalist and alchemist Jehuda (Juda) ben Becall Loew (Löw), who at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries was a rabbi in Poznań and Prague and according to legend created a golem. Through Christian cabalists and rosocrus, the “szem ha-mephorus” was assimilated by the masonry, combining different traditions to better realize the planet and improve man. In Masonic stories about the construction of the Temple of Solomon, he played the function of the lost word of the masters, whose cognition was supposedly lost with the death of Master Hiram Abif. However, an in-depth analysis of the Masonic message allows us to conclude that the “she ha-mephorus” is simply a symbol of cognition which has not been lost but simply covered with a veil of ignorance.

During the meeting, Dr. Fijałkowski will teardrop the veil of unawareness to realize what the Poznań rabbi did a fewer 100 years ago, whose intentions were obvious: he wanted only a better world. We invitation everyone who wants the same thing.

Background image:
Golem_1: Rabbi Loew revives the golem. Image by Mikoláš Aleš of 1899 published in Adolf Wenig's book Věnec pražských pověstí, Prague 1908 (Národní pedagogické museum a knihovna J. A. Komenského, Národní digitální knihovna; public domain).