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The Aleppo Codex is one of the most Sacred Texts in all of Judaism. Although created in Tiberias circa 920, it was brought to the Ancient Synagogue of Aleppo in present day Syria (then known as Aram-Zobah) by a descendent of Maimonides in 1375 where it was preserved until 1947 when Arabic protestors upset by the partition of Palestine stormed and set fire to the temple. Although the Codex was rescued and returned to Jerusalem, it was missing numerous pages, which had to be reconstructed from other sources. With the Leningrad Codex it is said to contain the entire original Hebrew Bible.
THE ALEPPO CODEX Official Medal 2005/5766 The Aleppo Codex is the earliest known Hebrew manuscript comprising the full text of the Bible. It is also the most authoritative, accurate, and sacred source document, both for the biblical text and for its vocalization, cantillation and Massorah (literally, “transmission” of the Bible, the oral and written tradition by which the Holy Scriptures have been preserved and passed on from generation to generation). The Codex was copied by the scribe Shlomo Ben-Buya’a over one thousand years ago. The text was then verified, vocalized, and provided with the Massorah by Aaron Ben-Asher, the last and most prominent member of the Ben-Asher dynasty, which shaped the Hebrew text of the Bible. It was the manuscript used by Maimonides when he set down the exact rules for writing scrolls of the Torah. The Codex was written in Eretz Israel in the early 10th century, looted and transferred to Egypt at the end of the 11th century, and deposited with the Jewish community of Aleppo in Syria at the end of the fourteenth century. The rabbis and elders of the community guarded it zealously for 600 years. During the riots against Jews and Jewish property in Aleppo in December 1947, the community’s ancient synagogue was burnt and the Codex, which was kept in the synagogue’s “Cave of Elijah,” suffered damage. 2″ in diameter. Thick, high relief medal!
Front: the manuscript, names of the scribe, the vocalizer, and the Rambam.Back: Ancient synagogue in Aleppo. 50mm Diameter!
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