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The room that housed the material was known as a geniza, from the Persian ganj , meaning "hidden treasure."
A World Revealed Gabriel Josipovici 2011
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LVIII (1904), 374 sqq., on a page that came from a geniza or repository in a synagogue for damaged manuscripts.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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The going wisdom is that even though you don’t need to put old tzitzit in the geniza, they are a ritual object and it’s nice to continue to put them to use.
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