A million suns book6/23/2023 ![]() Sandra Gogel, who was in town from Paris, said she had hoped the Codex Sassoon would draw a higher price, and was surprised that bidding had closed so quickly. “It doesn’t make me feel sad to see it behind glass because it was meant to be a reference work,” he said. Kupferberg, who said his most precious books were those containing the handwritten notes of great rabbis, said he sometimes regrets when Jewish texts are bought by collectors because they will not be used in everyday study. Whoever is going to own it next is going to change history.” “This is a historic moment,” said Elinatan Kupferberg, a scholar and writer from Lakewood, New Jersey. The in-person auction attracted a standing-room-only crowd of onlookers, many of whom said they felt compelled to witness a transaction of immense significance in Jewish tradition. Also for the fact that we’re based in Israel.” She added, “We are the right home for it for so many reasons. ![]() ![]() ![]() “For us to have it in the museum where it will be available for all those millions of people - this is something that can strengthen our roots and our identity, because it’s something eternal.” “This is one of the rarest, unique, uniting documents that ever existed,” Irina Nevzlin, chair of Anu’s board of directors, told JTA. ![]()
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