Genizah is a Hebrew term for the requirement to store in a repository – also called a genizah – Jewish ritual objects that no longer serve their purpose but cannot be destroyed for religious reasons.
GENIZAH is a religious injunction to protect the holy name of God.
The genizah requirement applies to all writings that contain any of the names of God. When these items reach the end of their usable life, they must be discarded without destroying God’s name by one’s own hand, and left to disintegrate naturally.
GENIZAH is a place for storing worn-out Jewish ritual objects.
It was customary to place damaged religious scrolls, prayer books and other ritual items in a synagogue attic – an enclosed, publicly inaccessible space where ‘sacred trash’ could slowly decompose.
GENIZAH is the removal from circulation of a text or other object and its storage away from further use.
According to Talmudic literature, religious Jews should be protected not only from damaged canonical texts, but also from apocryphal, non-original, and fake texts. These all require genizah.
GENIZAH a term deriving from the Semitic root GNZ, גנז, of Persian origin, which relates in meaning to the storing away or hiding of things.
Words derived from the root ‘GNZ’ in biblical texts refer to the preservation of treasures, such as expensive garments and other valuables, or to the storing of items with the aim of preventing their desecration.
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