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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231121T183000
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URL:https://www.amyisrael.org/events/the-aleppo-codex-facilitated-by-howar
 d-schickler/
SUMMARY:The Aleppo Codex\, facilitated by Howard Schickler
DESCRIPTION:Via Zoom - go to our secure website for the link.\n\nThe next p
 rogram in Howard Schickler's Random Walk through Jewish History and Cultur
 e will be a joint viewing of Matti Friedman's Presentation on his book\, t
 he Aleppo Codex. https://mattifriedman.com/the-aleppo-codex/\n\nHoward has
  collected materials about the Codex\, it's authors and ancient and modern
  attempts to find the "original" text of the Torah. IF YOU HAVE NOT PREVIO
 USLY INDICATED INTEREST IN THIS PROGRAM AND WOULD LIKE COPIES OF THE MATER
 IALS\, PLEASE LET HOWARD KNOW BY CLICKING HERE.\n\nThe Aleppo Codex is the
  earliest known Hebrew manuscript comprising the full text of the Bible. I
 t is also the most authoritative\, accurate\, and sacred source document\,
  both for the biblical text and for its vocalization\, cantillation and Ma
 sorah (literally\, "transmission" of the Bible\, the oral and written trad
 ition by which the Holy Scriptures have been preserved and passed on from 
 generation to generation). The Codex was copied by the scribe Shlomo Ben-B
 uya'a over one thousand years ago. The text was then verified\, vocalized\
 , and provided with the Masorah by Aaron Ben-Asher\, the last and most pro
 minent member of the Ben-Asher dynasty\, which shaped the Hebrew text of t
 he Bible. It was probably the manuscript used by Maimonides when he set do
 wn the exact rules for writing scrolls of the Torah.\n\nThe Codex was writ
 ten in Tiberias in the early tenth century\, looted and transferred to Egy
 pt at the end of the eleventh century\, and deposited with the Jewish comm
 unity of Aleppo in Syria at the end of the fourteenth century. The rabbis 
 and elders of the community guarded it zealously for some six hundred year
 s. During the riots against Jews and Jewish property in Aleppo in December
  1947\, the community's ancient synagogue was put to the torch and the Cod
 ex\, which was kept in the synagogue's "Cave of Elijah\," suffered damage\
 , so that no more than 295 of the original 487 leaves survived.\n\nIn Janu
 ary 1958 the Aleppo Codex was brought to Jerusalem\, where it remains unti
 l today.
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