Burying Religious Articles: Difference between revisions
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# Items that serviced kedusha, ''tashmishei kedusha'', such as an Aron Kodesh or the polls of a Sefer Torah do not need to be covered before being buried.<ref>Ginzei Hakodesh 15:4</ref> | # Items that serviced kedusha, ''tashmishei kedusha'', such as an Aron Kodesh or the polls of a Sefer Torah do not need to be covered before being buried.<ref>Ginzei Hakodesh 15:4</ref> | ||
# It is permitted to bury within the same container items of different levels of kedusha such as newspapers with mundane sections and also Divrei Torah.<ref>Ginzei Hakodesh 15:6</ref> | # It is permitted to bury within the same container items of different levels of kedusha such as newspapers with mundane sections and also Divrei Torah.<ref>Ginzei Hakodesh 15:6</ref> | ||
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# Geniza should be buried so that there is 3 tefachim of dirt on top of it and if that isn't possible, at least 1 tefach of dirt on top.<ref>Ginzei Hakodesh 15:10</ref> | # Geniza should be buried so that there is 3 tefachim of dirt on top of it and if that isn't possible, at least 1 tefach of dirt on top.<ref>Ginzei Hakodesh 15:10</ref> | ||
