I don’t know what anyone could do with it, save give it to Rebbe Schnerson. No, wait, he was still in Europe.
I thought there were 15 Commandments. What happened to the other 5?
613 Mitzvah at last count. I believe the ten are the most important. 
Ah, sort of like the Bill of Rights. 10 must be a convenient, round number.
This was in a panel in an old “Cutey Bunny” comic book. (Okay, I have low tastes.) The warehouse was full of things like the 500 mpg carburetor, the original formula to Coca Cola, Amelia Earhart’s whereabouts, the Area 51 UFO, the missing 18 1/2 minutes of secret White House tapes, etc.
Probably.
*emphasis added
In X-Men: Days of Future Past, there is a scene where an entourage (military members, Secret Service, cabinet members [presumably], members of Congress) assembled in Nixon’s Oval Office. Nixon says he wants to discuss the mutant problem “off the record.” Someone reaches into a drawer in Nixon’s desk and switches off a tape recorder. I laughed my ass off at the reference, but was disheartened when no one else laughed. It was a typically younger crowd and I wondered if recent generations have mostly abandoned learning history that is not contemporary or “forced” on them through education (sad, given the now relative ease of learning such things through technology), or if I was laughing at something that generally just wasn’t funny. I thought it was.
Sorry for the hijack, it was just bothering me.
That was kind of my take as well, with one more twist. I figured that if you’re not of the anointed priesthood, you don’t even get to see the tablets- you just see sand.
Had Jerusalem’s Chief Rabbi (or whoever) opened it, he would probably have seen the tablets, but not the Nazis for sure.
More like, “Even Goyim can manage this.”
I thought that “even goyim can manage this” was the Seven Commandments, not the Ten. And the Ten are viewed more as categories of commandments, into which the others can be sorted.
Dammit, I’ll have to talk to Rabbi…
Correct, the seven commandments given to Noah are assumed to apply to all peoples (even pagans.) Christianity took the Ten as applicable to them, as the supposed heirs of the covenant with Israel. Judaism takes the whole mass (613) of commandments.
The Ten specifically are actually counted differently by Jews and Christians (and even within some sects of Christianity.)
Moses dropped the third tablet.
Wait, wrong movie…
There’s a church in Ethiopia that claims to house the Ark and supposedly only one monk is allowed to see the Ark.
I don’t know if any present Jewish community has any regard for the Books of the Maccabees, but without looking up chapter & verse, I know they claim that the prophet Jeremiah took it from the Temple & stashed it in a cave.
Then again, some Anglo-Israelites claim he took it & various other relics such as David’s harp & Jacob’s stone pillow to Ireland, and most importantly the Judean princesses who married into the Royal line there. 
I kinda wished Spielberg would have read 1 Samuel 5:9 and applied the fine print. There has to be one person out there that wanted to see Marion apply Preparation H and that guy got robbed.
Yes. That’s just what the Hebrews thought.
I think I covered that in the Staff Report already referenced, but basically the Book of Maccabees was written in the years after 165 BCE, and Jeremiah died around 400 years earlier, so it’s not like an eye-witness account. Jews do NOT include that book in their bible, it’s regarded as an interesting historical document but certainly not infallibobble.
Is the book of Maccabees in the Catholic Bible?
I always thought the business of Indy and Marian not looking was a reference to the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, where Lot’s wife was turned into a pillar of salt when she looked back at the destruction.