Rare Manuscripts Handwritten by Maimonides On Display at Yeshiva University Museum
(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...