Strict compliance with the requirement of genizah applies particularly to the scrolls of Torah (the five books of Moses), but also to the small scrolls in prayer boxes (tefillin or phylacteries), the scrolls inside the cases that are attached to doorposts (mezuzah cases), and amulets. These objects were supposed to be buried in a Jewish cemetery at an appropriate later date, but instead remained in synagogue attics, along with other genizah material.
