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Scraps of parchment and ink testify to the Rambam's towering impact

Yeshiva University exhibit 'The Golden Path: Maimonides Across Eight Centuries' shows the far-reaching impact of one of the Middle Age’s most prolific Torah scholars

(Courtesy of YU) A ground-breaking exhibit of extraordinary items, some never before displayed in public, including spectacular manuscripts in Maimonides’s own hand, make up “The Golden Path: Maimonides Across Eight Centuries,” a new Yeshiva University Museum (YUM) exhibit, running May 9 to Dec. 31. Artifacts with a personal connection to this great Jewish luminary include a Mishneh Torah (code of law that revolutionized the study and practice of Judaism) signed and personally approved by Maimonides; a fragment from the Cairo Genizah with Maimonides’s signature and other fragments in h...

A ground-breaking exhibit of items, some never before displayed in public, including manuscripts in Maimonides’s own hand, make up “The Golden Path: Maimonides Across Eight Centuries.”

(Courtesy of YU) As Chanukah approaches, the New York-based Yeshiva University Museum (YUM) has announced that its upcoming exhibition will feature a hand-drawn illustration of the Temple Menorah from a manuscript that contains notes by Moses Maimonides (Rambam, 1138-1204), one of the great luminaries of Jewish history.