The Golem of Brooklyn Quotes

“When the golem has accomplished its mission—typically the martial defense of the Jewish people (as was the case with the Golem of Prague, widely considered the Michael Jordan of golems), but sometimes manual labor (the task appointed to the Golem of Chelm, usually regarded as the Scottie Pippen of golems)—the aleph is erased from his forehead, changing the word truth to the word death and causing the golem to return to a state of vacant immobility, like a toddler in front of a television screen.”
― Adam Mansbach, The Golem of Brooklyn

“But outside the bubble, beliefs could easily get decoupled from deeds, and if you didn’t do everything, it became easier and easier to do nothing.”
― Adam Mansbach, The Golem of Brooklyn

“What was Judaism if not an exacting, totalized system of laws handed down by the divine, then kitted out with redundancies and fail-safes by the scholars to eliminate any chance of an infraction—building a wall around the Torah, it was called, the process by which don’t cook a goat in its mother’s milk ballooned into never mix dairy with meat, buy two sets of dishes, wash them in different dishwashers—and then, finally, poked full of loopholes so the devout might obediently circumvent those laws?”
― Adam Mansbach, The Golem of Brooklyn

“Hebrew was not a language Len knew; he had grown up observant only in the sense that he noticed things.”
― Adam Mansbach, The Golem of Brooklyn

“There was a dumbest guy in every mob.”
― Adam Mansbach, The Golem of Brooklyn

“Miri just stared at him, her face throwing off so much heat she expected to see the air between the two of them go wavy.”
― Adam Mansbach, The Golem of Brooklyn