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The Quest of Questions: Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe

The National Library of Israel

Role: Exhibition designer

Curation: Neta Assaf, Karin Shabtai and Noa Manheim

31.07.26 – 03.27

For centuries, philosophers, mystics, and scientists – Jewish, Muslim, Christian, and others – have grappled with profound questions about the relationship between humanity, the cosmos, and time itself. Their search for answers brought together diverse traditions and theories, crossing linguistic, geographic, religious, cultural, and historical boundaries. Along the way, it forged unexpected connections between astrology and astronomy, geometry and Kabbalah, medicine and alchemy – disciplines that were all employed in the effort to uncover the mysteries of existence and the universe.

Rare original items from the National Library of Israel’s collections will be displayed side by side, tracing the intellectual journeys of these thinkers and inviting visitors to reconsider modern binary distinctions between science and mysticism, philosophy and religion, and other categories that are often treated as separate. The exhibition creates a space where Jewish, Christian, and Muslim sources converge, illuminating and interpreting one another through an ongoing, multi-generational, multilingual, cultural, and religious dialogue.

Like the Library itself, the exhibition offers a shared and timeless arena for inquiry and discovery, adventure and skepticism. It recreates, on an intimate scale, the enduring conversation that has unfolded across centuries among scholars, seekers, and visionaries from different worlds and traditions.