This Yom Kippur, Chaim Neria intends to bring copies of two manuscripts, which the National Library of Israel recently acquired, to synagogue with him to study and to “deepen my knowledge” during the High Holiday.

“Taking to shul different mahzors and holding them side by side with your mahzor always helps to reflect on the nusach and see unique nusachim , renewing your experience,” Neria, curator of the library’s Haim and Hanna Solomon Judaica collection, told JNS. (A nusach is an approach to prayer endemic to a particular geographic area and culture, such as Ashkenaz or Sephardi.)

In recent days, the library announced its acquisition of a 14th-century mahzor for Yom Kippur from the Crimean peninsula and of two out of three parts of a 15th-century mahzor from Lisbon, Portuga

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