Symbolism will be their downfall.
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Handling a 1500yo book with no gloves.... 🙄
Exactly my thought.
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Which tells me it's fake. They're in a random kitchen (background noises). It's way too short to be a Torah (how many pages are in your Bible's Old Testament?) The pages on a book that old would be way too brittle to handle that roughly and would basically crumble in to dust. Even the dead Sea scrolls can't be unrolled— they were read by forensically scanning them with x-rays at different depths and reconstructing the pages with machine learning. This book is not a Torah, nor 1500 years old. Some random jewish mysticism book they probably pass around at synagogue, sure— maybe, if it isn't outright fake.
Including a toilet lid dropping.
Came here to say that too. Any relic that old needs to be handled with gloves and a lot gentler than that baboon does.
We watched an antique show this weekend and an old lady brought a bible from the 15th century. The expert was handling it just like this to the womans shock. He said it was no problem since the paper in old books was far better and thicker than modern books.
After valuation she quickly took the bible from him and put it in her bag, not willing to let him manhandle it any further. Quite comical, but I’m sure he knows his stuff.
I was thinking about that too!