Recovered Hebrew text

A Hebrew text that had been stolen more than 10 years ago has been recovered. The text named The Book of Levitical Worship It is over two centuries old and is among the most valuable in Hebrew culture.

The missing of the book was confirmed during an inventory in 1998 in the Ramban Municipal Library where the text was.

The Book of Levitical Worship It is a manuscript that dates from the year 1793 and deals with Jewish Law. The library authorities reported the robbery to the police who carried out numerous investigations, but all were unsuccessful.

In subsequent years, it became known that the book had been auctioned at New York and then that it had been acquired by a merchant with an unknown name, but later his trail was lost again.

Until, in 2005, an official of the National Library of Israel detected the book in the German National Library. After specialists determined that it was indeed the stolen text, the German authorities decided to return the book to the Israeli library from where it was stolen 10 years ago.

The Hebrew culture, the texts and its literature, is not only one of the oldest of which written documents are preserved, but it is also one of the pillars of Western civilization. From the Jewish people and culture (as well as from the Greek culture), which later connects with the Christian tradition, come a large part, if not all, of the values ​​and concepts of our daily life. Therefore, this finding is not a trivial fact. In addition, the recovery of a lost text is always a reason for joy.