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- Elijah_Baal_Shem_of_Chelm abstract "Elijah Ba'al Shem or Eliyahu Ba'al Shem of Chełm (government of Lublin) (born 1550; died at Chelm, 1583) was a Polish rabbi who served as chief rabbi of Chełm. He also studied Kabbalah, and, according to his descendant Tzvi Ashkenazi, created a golem. He is credited with creating the first golem with a \"shem\" (that is, using a combination of letters from one of the names of God to form a name; Elijah used \"Sefer Yezirah\"), so he was known as a \"Ba'al Shem.\" He is the first rabbi in history to be known by this title.".