liebes received the 1997 bialik prize for his book "the secret of the sabbatean faith" (1995). in 1999 he received the peace prize for the study of kabbalah and the gershom scholem prize for kabbalah research. he was awarded the 2006 emet prize for art, science and culture, in the category of humanities, for his work on sabbateanism. in 2017 he received the israel prize for his work on kabbalah and jewish mysticism.