In order to take away his strength, which ultimately
becomes a threat to all those in the house, they
quickly erase the first letter aleph from the word
’emeth on his forehead, so that there remains only
the word meth, that is, dead. When this is done,
the golem collapses and dissolves into the clay or
mud that he was...

Christoph Arnold, letter to Johann Christoph Wagenseil