Messages of hope in early printed Hebrew texts.

A message to Isaac Luria.

The Arba’ah Turim incunabulum.

A millennium old and embossed with gold.

Penitential prayers from Piove di Sacco.

The Avot of 1492.

Exploring the world’s largest collection.

From 15th-century Iberia.

Elisha ben Gad’s Tree of Knowledge.

And the Christian missionaries who brought it to England.

Beware “Rabbi Robber and Rabbi Thief.”

A new exhibit displays the physical legacy of the great sage’s work.

An Israeli, a famous economist, and an empty auction house.

A secret 1977 trip to Cairo is involved.