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Sotheby’s to auction a Ten Commandments tablet with a disclaimer: Israel always wanted it to be put on public display

JL;DR SUMMARY A 1,500-year-old inscribed stone tablet of the Ten Commandments is set to be auctioned by Sotheby's, but it carries a critical caveat. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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JudaicaCultural HeritageTen CommandmentsSamaritansMount GerizimJewish ArtifactsSotheby's AuctionPublic DisplayIsrael AntiquitiesAuction Ethics

Places mentioned

Yavneh, Southern District, Israel
"Created 1,500 years ago, it surfaced during a 1913 railroad excavation, only to be used to pave the entryway to a house near the present-day Israeli city of Yavneh."
New York, United States
"The tablet will be available for public viewing at Sothebys offices in New York from Dec. 5 until the auction on Dec. 18."
Brooklyn, New York, United States
"Deutsch complied, taking the tablet to his Living Torah Museum in Brooklyn."

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