This story of the purchase of this Spanish Kabbalistic manuscript encapsulates much of the work done here at the National Library.
“3/12/1941 – My heart is burning and my body is freezing. My head is hurting beyond all reason. Why? Is all justice forsaken?”
Stories, symbols and the nature of God concealed among Hebrew letters
Take a glimpse at the coded letters that expose a complex operation to smuggle Jewish women who were in danger out of Italy.
The original manuscript of Maimonides’ “Commentary on the Mishnah”, including mistakes and corrections made by the master himself, can now be viewed by the public
No one knows the exact origins of the little black suitcase filled with hand-written scrolls now kept at the National Library of Israel.
Even though many authorities of Jewish law permit women to perform ritual slaughter, there are very few testimonies of female ritual slaughterers in Jewish history.
Learn about a Kabbalistic tradition that will tell you if you have been sealed in the Book of Life or Death following the High Holy Days.
You really should listen to your mother when she tells you not to read at the dinner table…
History is being preserved at the National Library of Israel with the conservation of two pages from an original Gutenberg Bible.
