[UA] Golem reproduction

[Nick Wedig]

>It's like this.  Golems can reproduce.  Once.  That's never directly
>stated, but seems to be the only conclusion that can be drawn from the
>next-to-last paragraph.  When Ein-Sof split, he and his twin went
>separate ways, and he was now barren.  The same is true forever more.
>Each golem is a direct, linear descendant of Ein-Sof.  Father begets
>son and becomes barren, son begets his own son, and becomes barren.
>Whenever a new golem is made or born, the child is the latest scion of
>Ein-Sof's unbroken line, and the only golem in the world able to
>reproduce.  The conclusion is that there can only be one "virgin" golem
>at a time, and if that most recent generation of the golem family is
>ever destroyed before making a child, there won't be any more, ever.
>
>I don't know if this has come up before, but I'm curious about the
>implications.  The statement in the final paragraph, "Many, many golems
>never get a chance to reproduce" would be impossible, if the above
>conclusion is true.

I read the whole thing as a sort of division, like amoebas do (Mitosis? Meiosis?  biology was a class I spent reading Dante).  Therefore, it wouldn't be so much a father/son relationship, but two identical beings, either of which could be considered the original.  So identifying one of the twins as Ein-Sof would be incorrect, as its equally valid to claim the other one is.  Ein-Sof stopped existing when he split, although the two golems that now existed were identical to him.

At least, that's how my mind read it, but the book might have passages that disagree.  

Mr. Teapot
asexually reproducing kabbalistic golem

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