When a piece of paper has the name of God on it, it isn’t quite like other pieces of paper. Judaism has a tradition of handling such pages with great care – burying them with an honored scholar or storing them in a special place, a genizah. Five years ago, we began to think about how to handle our outdated High Holy Day books, machzorim, and other material with God’s name, and decided our special handling would be to recycle the paper into new uses. We will have a short service to mark this transformation  

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Photo: Cambridge University Library, Solomon Schechter at work in Cambridge

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 A genizah (or geniza); Hebrew: גניזה  "storage"; plural: genizot or genizoth or genizahs) is a storage area in a Jewish synagogue or cemetery designated for the temporary storage of worn-out Hebrew-language books and papers on religious topics prior to proper cemetery burial.