It is Biblically forbidden to erase any of the Names by which God is called. Ideally, source sheets and pamphlets whose purpose is Torah study should be placed in genizah.

Answer: It sounds like you’re talking about burying the contents of a genizah, Linda. Genizah means "reserved" or "hidden" in Hebrew, and is traditionally a place where Jews store sacred documents ...

The Cairo Genizah is an irreplaceable repository for information about 1,000 years of human history. But the 350,000 fragments that make up the Genizah are scattered worldwide. Researchers are now ...

When Torah scrolls and other sacred texts are damaged in a way that cannot be repaired, they must be placed in a "genizah." Some 19 historic Torah scrolls from the Western Wall plaza were placed in a ...

An ancient Haggadah from the Cairo Genizah, probably from the 10th-11th centuries CE, opens a window to the Jewish customs of the Middle Ages: the Passover Seder guidelines are written in Judeo-Arabic ...

A Yom Kippur prayer book fragment from the Cairo Genizah, circa 11th/ 12th century, National Library of Israel Collection. Photo credit: National Library of Israel A groundbreaking Israeli-based ...

An ancient religious ceremony, described in several Dead Sea Scrolls, could explain the mysteries of the archaeological site of Qumran. A mystical religious ceremony described in several Dead Sea ...

Computer scientists at Tel Aviv University are using artificial intelligence to gather the fragments of the world’s largest collection of medieval documents, the legendary Cairo Genizah, to tell the ...

11th-century documents from Genizah store in Old Cairo synagogue cover whole range of human life, co-curator says From the faded brown ink on the yellowed paper of a document going on display this ...