[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > True. However, this current subthread started with the following:
> >
> > > I swear I've seen a big stone one of Lincoln, sitting
> > >down. You mean that it WON'T come to the defense of Liberty
> > >when a rabbi writes the word on its forehead?
> >
>
> So? He got confused, since, in the legend, the rabbi makes a clay figure and
> animates it, he does not do it to an existing statue. He had the right idea
> but applied it wrongly.
Rabbi Loew made his out of clay since it was easier. But
stone also works (and stands up better against artillery fire).
See _Jane's Fighting Magic_, for instance.
---David
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