Showing posts with label esther scroll. Show all posts
Showing posts with label esther scroll. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

The Aleppo Codex: Book Review from a Scribe's Perspective

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I've been meaning to write about the Aleppo/Ben Asher Codex for a long time. Now that Matti Friedman came out with a masterpiece book ...
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Amazing Megillot #8: Avraham Borshevski

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Avaraham Borshevski has one of the nicest Ktavim I know and among his projects is this nice Megillat Esther, which was illustrated by Irina ...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Amazing Megillot #7: Iraqi Esther Scroll

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I came across this beautiful Esther Scroll from Iraq. It's a very special piece, with symmetric motifs and splendid coloring. Written in...
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Sunday, November 29, 2009

Amazing Megillot #6: Sotheby's Important Judaica Auction

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In my previous post I wrote about Sotheby's Sefer Torah auction, which pocketed 398,500 (the estimate was 300,000 to 500,000). But there...
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Sunday, September 27, 2009

The Two Columns of Shirat Haazinu

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The Mitzva of writing a Sefer Torah comes from this past week's Parsha, Haazinu. In the preceding Parsha, G-d says to Moshe that the Je...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Esnoga's Scrolls

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The Esnoga is one of the most important historic synagogues of the world and it was built during the golden years of the Jewish community of...
Thursday, May 28, 2009

Exquisite Megillat Esther Case

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Made out of ivory, gold and silver, this is one of the nicest cases I've seen - I love the look of Esther and Achashverosh and the assim...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Amazing Megillot #4 - Papercut on Red Leather

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This is a very special and contemporary Megillat Esther made by a personal frien, Uri Revach. It's hard to do papercut in a Megilla sin...
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Thursday, March 5, 2009

Amazing Megillot #3 - The Gross Family Meggilla

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_____ This Megilla is like no other. It's an antique piece from the 18th century Germany and it remains in good condition. The coolness ...
Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Amazing Megillot #2 - The Agam Meggilla

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I saw this one in the website of the Library of Congress. I've seen other works by Agam but never a Holy Book and this Megilla really s...
Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Amazing Megillot Series #1

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I saw this absolutely fabulous Megilat Esther in a Jerusalem Judaica store. It's not an antique piece - it's actually brand new. I c...