[UA] Golem reproduction

[Malagigi at aol.com]

I periodically open the UA book at random and refresh my memory on a
segment here, an essay there.  Recently, the pages fell apart revealing
the story and background of the golems.  Reading, I drew an obvious
and inevitable conclusion that doesn't seem to agree with what the rest
of the tale implies.

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.


-Pat

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