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Israel's National Library gains gift of rare 15th-century Scroll of Esther

Israel’s National Library gains gift of rare 15th-century Scroll of Esther Israel’s National Library gains gift of rare 15th-century Scroll of Esther Dating from pre-expulsion Spain and Portugal, the Megillah is “an incredibly rare testament to the rich culture of the Jews of the Iberian Peninsula,” says library curator Yoel Finkelman. A panel from the rare medieval Scroll of Esther recently donated to the National Library of Israel. The library announced that it would be viewed online on Feb. 22, 2021. Credit: National Library of Israel. Spread the word. (February 22, 2021 / JNS) One of the world’s oldest scrolls of Esther was recently gifted to the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem, the library’s blog announced on Monday.

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With Jerusalem emerging from COVID-19 curbs and the faithful flocking there again, Easter Sunday brought a message of renewal from. Finkelman added that the library was “privileged to house this treasure and to preserve the legacy of pre-expulsion Iberian Jewry for the Jewish people and the world.” The Scroll of Esther is read worldwide in Jewish communities during the holiday of Purim, which this year begins after sundown from Thursday night until sundown on Friday. The scroll, which the library has made available online, is written on leather with brown ink and in a Sephardic script emblematic of a Torah scroll. On the first panel are blessings traditionally recited before and after the reading of the scroll, which attests to its ritual use in the Iberian Jewish community, said the library.

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Israel Now Home to 'Incredibly Rare' Complete Scroll of Esther, One of World's Oldest

Feb 22, 2021 Scroll of Esther written by a scribe on the Iberian Peninsula around 1465, before the Jews’ expulsion, has been acquired by the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem. By Yakir Benzion, United With Israel One of the world’s oldest known scrolls of the biblical Book of Esther has recently been gifted to the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem, home to the world’s largest collection of textual Judaica, where it has also been made available online for the first time. Written in Hebrew, the Book of Esther relates the tale of how an evil advisor to the ancient king of Persia schemed to commit genocide and kill all the Jews. However, the king took the young and beautiful Jewish woman Esther as his queen. who revealed the scheme to the monarch and saved the Jews.