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#A sefer Torah that is worn out must be buried, which is genizah. It should be put in a earthenware vessel in the ground buried together with a Talmid Chacham.<ref>Gemara Megillah 26b, Shulchan Aruch O.C. 154:3</ref> | #A sefer Torah that is worn out must be buried, which is genizah. It should be put in a earthenware vessel in the ground buried together with a Talmid Chacham.<ref>Gemara Megillah 26b, Shulchan Aruch O.C. 154:3</ref> | ||
#An Aron Kodesh that is worn out should be buried.<ref>Rava in Gemara Megillah 26b states that an Aron Kodesh is a tashmishei kedusha can't be converted into a chair for a sefer Torah. This is codified in Shulchan Aruch O.C. 154:6 and Y.D. 282:13. Ginzei Hakodesh 5:8 writes that an Aron Kodesh that is worn out needs to be buried like every tashmishei kedusha. See Chatom Sofer 6:10 who explains that originally it was considered a tashmishei kedusha when the covering of the sefer torah was too short and didn't fully cover the klaf. </ref> It shouldn't be used to bury a person in it.<ref>The Chatom Sofer 6:10 writes that it is forbidden for a person to be buried in an Aron Kodesh since that is considered a mundane use of a tashmishei kedusha. He explains that even though the Gemara Megillah 26a permits burying a person with clothes that were used to wrap a sefer torah that is because a Jew after he dies has kedusha. Yet, burying a person with clothes is a valid use of kedusha for a cloth that used to wrap a sefer torah, but having an aron kodesh hold a person isn't being used for kedusha if the person is buried inside it since he is buried with clothing. Alternatively, it doesn't really enhance the burial to have the person buried in a coffin (see Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 362:1). Kaf Hachaim 154:39 quotes the Pitchei Teshuva who argues that the distinction of the Chatom Sofer isn't compelling. He adds that it is certainly forbidden to use an aron kodesh to transport a corpse if it isn't going to be used to bury him. </ref> | #An Aron Kodesh that is worn out should be buried.<ref>Rava in Gemara Megillah 26b states that an Aron Kodesh is a tashmishei kedusha can't be converted into a chair for a sefer Torah. This is codified in Shulchan Aruch O.C. 154:6 and Y.D. 282:13. Ginzei Hakodesh 5:8 writes that an Aron Kodesh that is worn out needs to be buried like every tashmishei kedusha. See Chatom Sofer 6:10 who explains that originally it was considered a tashmishei kedusha when the covering of the sefer torah was too short and didn't fully cover the klaf. </ref> It shouldn't be used to bury a person in it.<ref>The Chatom Sofer 6:10 writes that it is forbidden for a person to be buried in an Aron Kodesh since that is considered a mundane use of a tashmishei kedusha. He explains that even though the Gemara Megillah 26a permits burying a person with clothes that were used to wrap a sefer torah that is because a Jew after he dies has kedusha. Yet, burying a person with clothes is a valid use of kedusha for a cloth that used to wrap a sefer torah, but having an aron kodesh hold a person isn't being used for kedusha if the person is buried inside it since he is buried with clothing. Alternatively, it doesn't really enhance the burial to have the person buried in a coffin (see Shulchan Aruch Y.D. 362:1). Kaf Hachaim 154:39 quotes the Pitchei Teshuva who argues that the distinction of the Chatom Sofer isn't compelling. He adds that it is certainly forbidden to use an aron kodesh to transport a corpse if it isn't going to be used to bury him. </ref> | ||
# A parochet is something used for a secondary degree of kedusha, that is, it adorns the aron which houses the Torah, therefore it doesn't require genizah. As long as it is in use it can't be used for mundane purposes.<ref>Ginzei Hakodesh 5:14 clarifies that today when the parochet isn't used for covering teh bimah when a sefer torah is brought to the bimah it isn't considereed a tashmish of kedusha, rather it is a tashmish dtashmish dkedusha which doesn't require geniza. He adds that it has kedusha of the shul which while it is being used can't be used for mundane purposes.</ref> | |||
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