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Are there such things as today in Jewish Geniza?

I read here a reference to the "windowless room" used to store, old books of Scripture to wait a moment while they could be burned with due respect. "In Collected Works of Hugh Nibley." Someone has been here or seen one, old or otherwise? Just curious to know what can still be observed in 2007.

More synagogues genizot temporary (one cabinet) literature to store until it moved to a burial site near a great Torah scholar .. Books and manuscripts do not burn .. Since ———————————– From Genizah Wikipedia or Geniza ("storage"; genizot plural) is the warehousing or in a synagogue, usually used specifically for books Hebrew and articles on religious subjects that were stored there before they can receive a proper cemetery burial, and is allowed to throw documents containing the name of God (even personal letters and legal contracts could open with an invocation of God). In practice, genizot also contained the written character secular, with or without the usual opening invocation, and also contains written in other languages that use the Hebrew alphabet (Judeo-Arabic Judeo-Persian, Ladino, Yiddish). This practice has also included a solemn assembly of the contents of the Geniza papers, which were then buried in the cemetery or Ḥayyim bet. " synagogues of Jerusalem buried their content genizot every seven years, and during a drought year, believing that bring rain. This practice is associated with the practice much older man buried a large or a sefer "which became" Pasul "(unsuitable for the use of illegibility or old age). In Morocco, Algeria, Turkey and Egypt, even these documents burials conducted. By far the best known Genizah best, which is famous for its spectacular size and content, the Cairo Geniza, discovered in 1864 by Jacob Sapphire, and especially studied by Solomon Schechter.

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