Alfred Moses: 'I bought Sassoon Codex for the Jewish people'

The Israelites famously declared in the book of Exodus at Mount Sinai, “We will do, and then we will hear.” Rabbinic tradition has taken that to mean that they accepted the Torah sight unseen, so it is fortuitous that Alfred Moses bought the most expensive book ever sold at auction—a Hebrew bible—before he saw it.

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