Masechet Leviathan – Tractate Leviathan

 

Masechet Leviathan – Tractate Leviathan

100 cm x 70 cm
ink on paper, collage
text: recipes for the fish (modern texts), laws from Shulchan Aruch and Mishnah Berurah about eating fish.

Leviathan is a huge fish destined for the righteous in the Future World. In Talmudic* Tractate Leviathan the rabbis discuss which is the best recipe for preparing the leviathan.

The original is in the collection of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews POLIN, in Warsaw.