For the next two weeks, Sunday and Tuesday evenings are game night at the Neve Schechter gallery in Tel Aviv, where the latest exhibit, “Roll of Destiny,” explores how Jewish knowledge engages with the world in role-playing games.

“It’s part of our ongoing research of trying to understand how the Jewish body of knowledge can interact with the world in new and evolutionary ways,” said Bar Yerushalmi, director and curator of the gallery. “Role-playing games allow people to participate in ways that we can’t in other forms; it’s mutual storytelling.”

The “Roll of Destiny” exhibit includes six original games, five of which are for four players, while one, “EnGolement” — to become a golem — engages 12 players.

Instead of classic role-playing games like “Dungeons & Dragons” or “Magic: The Gathering,” think “The Days of the Messiah.”

The premise in “The Days of the Messiah” is that the savior has arrived; the game revolves around the different qualities of the messiah and deciding what he or she will do and how.

In “Carry On,” players are at an imaginary security........

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