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Question because of Golem

Shalom dear people.

I have a question.

I am an agnostic christian from germany and I am running a german text roleplay community of 70+ people in the Wizarding World. I do hate Rowling for certain things, but I love the world in it’s basics itself so I basically expanded much of the lore for my players while I stick to certain essential canon. I try a lot to keep it culturally respectful, usually try to work with a lot of folkloric and mythological sources, but not touch religion a lot out of respect – and if so, I ask people of said faith about the opinion they have about the idea I bring up.

I am facing a small problem for me now; a female player who enjoys the implementation of real-world historical, mythological or folkloric things into “our” Wizarding World asked me if it would be possible to have a lesson in Charms (or Defence against the Dark Arts, don’t know yet which) about Golems.

I do know about the prague Golem a bit because I have read a lot about the history of Judaism in eastern europe. My question to the collective community now is the following; Would you consider it insulting if there would be a lesson about the kabbalistic Golem with a kinda-secular description how it is created? I plan to describe that many mystics of the medieval ages were unknowing wizards and sort of developed a deep understanding of magic itself, even reaching the degree that they could create artificial “life” like the Golem as familiars or servants. Kindasorta throwing a bit of reference in that it was necessary as a tool of defence because the jewish population, magical or not, was hit by antisemitism. I would also make it so that most of the magic of the Kabbala was lost during the Shoa and that it basically threw the wizarding world of europe into a dark age regarding knowledge.

Do you think this is acceptable or should I refrain from doing it like that? I do not mean any offense. I think such things are interesting to cover and it can bring cultural sensitivity and understanding when it is covered true to cultural standards.

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