December 2018 - March 2019
לא קם כמשה
There Was None Like Moses
Maimonides: From the Invention of Printing to
the Digital Age
The proverb "From Moses to Moses, there was none like Moses" reflects Maimonides’ vast influence in and beyond the Jewish world.
This exhibition presents publications created around the figure of Maimonides, from the invention of printing and into the digital age, and it shows diverse audiences portrayed their own Maimonides to match their needs and imaginations.
The rationalist philosopher, meticulous legalist, world-renowned physician, and active communal leader may have died more than 800 years ago, but interest in his writings and life has never flagged, among Jews and non-Jews alike, from Yemen and Iraq to Europe and the Americas.
Yet, various publics constructed for themselves a Maimonides that complemented their unique cultural sensitivities, at times imagining a figure very different from who he really was. Legacies have a life of their own, and the author himself does not determine how he will be perceived hundreds of years after his death.
The exhibit There Was None Like Moses is a collaboration of the National Library of Israel and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem with the support of the Maimonides Fund. Concurrently, the Israel Museum is presenting the exhibition Maimonides: A Legacy in Script, which focuses on the unique manuscripts containing his writings.
In addition to the exhibition at the National Library, a new site was opened - the "Beit Midrash of Maimonides" - in which a series of meetings of Chavruta, discussion and study will take place over the next few months. The Beit Midrash program is here before you and you are invited to take part in the various events at no cost and with advance registration.
Joint study of the laws of Talmud Torah
*No registration is required
On the basis of free space
Mr. Yosef Leichter, the National Library
The National Library building
The Maimonides Seminary
Afternoon Scholar with Rabbi Yitzchak Sheilat, of the Maale Adumim Yeshiva
The National Library building
Mr. Yosef Leichter, the National Library
The National Library building
The Maimonides Seminary
Afternoon Scholar with Prof. Menahem Ben-Sasson, Chancellor of the Hebrew University
The National Library building
The Maimonides Seminary
How popular legends dealt with the figure of Maimonides
Prof. Eli Yassif, scholar of Jewish folklore and the Hebrew medieval narrative, Tel Aviv University
Joint study of the laws of Talmud Torah
*No registration is required
On the basis of free space
There was None Like Moses: From the Invention of Printing to the Digital Age
Making Maimonides Accessible Then and Now: Vision and Reality
Rabbi Dr. Yohai Makbili, the Mishne Torah Project
A brief but deep study of sections of "HaYad HaHazaka"
with Rabbi Yechiel Goldhaber
Was Maimonides Human?
What place does the humanist value system – individual and human values – hold in the life of a religious person?
Dr. Eliezer Malchiel, the Department of Philosophy at Ben-Gurion University, and Herzog College
A brief but deep study of sections of "HaYad HaHazaka"
With Rabbi Yechiel Goldhaber
In the Blink of an Eye: Maimonides' Brief Stay in the Land of Israel
Prof. Elchanan Reiner, the National Library
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