This third volume of the series Reflections on S. Y. Agnon is an in-depth exploration into one text, The Beams of Our House, from Agnon's later works, which was first published in its entirety some nine years after the author's death.

The critical thought about The Beams of Our House is based in this research on the distinction that this work's main existence is in a textual or intertextual dimension. This distinction regarding this work which is 'writing about writing' comes to replace what Agnon's critics saw as a work that should not be given much attention, and that was nothing more than a failed attempt by Agnon to set up a fictional family saga.

Reading The Beams of Our House seeks to show that even if the histories of real people from Agnon's ancestors are immersed in it, in its deepest dimension it is not a work about humans, but about the existence, histories and incarnations of books from all over the Jewish bookcase. The driving force of this work lies in Agnon's continuous mourning for the catastrophic loss of his writings and libraries no less than three times in a chain of personal and collective disasters, and above all the 'mythological' fire of all the libraries in the city of Buczacz in 1865. Hence , from this historical event in which his grandfather was an important part of his healing process , the recurring theme unfolds in Agnon's writings of writers and book-lovers whose libraries caught fire, as well as his consistent interest in hagiographical literature and stories about burned and hidden writings. This also reveals the aesthetic and ideal compensation he found in the form of the design of The Beams of Our House as a huge polyphonic space of books from different eras, which talk to each other as it were and ask the narrator to decide between their different positions. All of this leads to the compilation of The Beams of Our House as a 'praise story (hagiography) of the writing self', that is, to the shaping of Agnon's own creative personality as someone who continues to oscillate between the traditions of ancient sages, men of magi and astronomy, and halakhic sages whose knowledge of the Torah reaches the extent of knowing Torah by heart and turning it from a written Torah into an entirely oral Torah.

In this volume, a bibliographic map is laid out that reproduces dozens of essays from the Middle Ages to the modern era, whether they are mentioned or whether they are alluded to in the book The Beams of Our House. This is therefore a principled essay in relation to the feature that gained Agnon's reputation as a 'walking library' of the Jewish book, and especially of the stormy internal discourse that his opinion was subject to in relation to the essays included in it. Within this discourse, fundamental literary reflections sink in regarding the question of the guaranteed eternity of the Jewish book and the possibilities of its 'existence' in a collective consciousness that is imprinted precisely at the time of its loss in a fire or its voluntary burying.

In the second part of the book, some of Agnon's other works are also mentioned, such as in the story ,'A Book that was Lost' from the collection Ir U-Meloa, as well as a literary project that Agnon began with his story 'The Tale of the Goat' and these two stand like a diptych side by side and shed light on the place of Jewish literature in its transition from the exile to Israel. The question of the historicity of literary designs is also at the center of the discussion on the urban metaphysical structure of 'Mr. Lublin's Shop' and Agnon's novels at the book signing.

The book contains detailed bibliographic references to dozens of essays that Agnon relied on in writing The Beams of Our House, as well as photographs of rare books and rare documents that Agnon used in writing this novel.