In this exhibition, more than 300 items with their relevant explanations have walked you through the days of Jewish life, including holidays, customs and values. You might have observed highly ornamented, priceless rarities, and simple, transformed items whose value is attributable to only the commandments observed through their use. Their unique stories gave insight into social and cultural phenomena, and one could learn how they were put to use before becoming part of the collection. In the exhibition you also learned about Judaism’s relationship to space and time. In the first hall the displayed items related to the concept of time, whereas this hall presents items related to the concept of space. The closing wall of the exhibition is pointing to the East, towards Jerusalem. In our tradition, synagogues are facing east, and worshipers also turn to this direction. These gestures invoke the past and the complete redemption to come. Here, time and space overlap, representing the eternal circle of Jewish life in the face of destruction, persecution, expulsion, auto-da-fé and gas chambers.

Hence the title:

TAMID

[always, recurring, constantly]