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>>>Yserbius: That’s a very Chasidish answer.

It’s not. Rav Yaakov Kamentsky also expressed his discomfort with the golem deniers to someone I knew (a talmid of Rav Boruch Ber) . Not because Rav Yaakov Kamentsky was so convinced that the golem had actually existed. It was just the whole academic approach and discomfort with belief in the supernatural that motivates so many of the deniers that Rav Yaakov had issues with.

People who believe that someone of the level of the Maharal could make a golem whether they believe he actually did so or not usually would not care enough about the subject to write entire seforim on it. Just like they don’t write seforim on other debated legends or questionable well know stories.

That is why Rav Schach (and Rav Yaakov) were saying.