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My congregation tries to have recent b'nei mitzvah do the torah readings on the high holy days, but they sometimes need adults to fill in and I usually get tapped for this. So it was no surprise to get a piece of mail on Thursday with a portion. They don't need to mail me the portion (just telling me the verses would be fine), but it's easier on the office to mail things out to everybody, I'm told. So now I have another piece of paper that I can't recycle because it contains the divine name; into the stack it goes, and someday I'll make that stack someone else's problem. So far so good.

Then today came the audio CD, which I also don't need, but it's easier on the office... But what I am to make of the one-verse offset between the written passage and what's on the CD? Oops. (It's written on the CD, else I never would have noticed because I never would have played it.)

I can handle it either way (in fact, I've already negotiated the boundary with the person before me, whose CD was also off by one), but I hope this doesn't mess anyone else up. Or rather, I hope the other readers are also observant enough to notice the problem before they get too far. Maybe I better call the office on Tuesday.

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[(Anonymous)]

In Anchorage, there are less than 20 copies of the Chumash and/or TaNaKh in the synagogue, so most fridays there is a 1 page photocopy of the part the rabbi is going to talk about. I had always collected them and left them in a pile for the rabbi. Then one week we had our annual "Teacher Appreciation" Shabbat and two of the Christian teachers from our preschool attended. They thought to ask the rabbi what happened to the paper. He actually usually cuts it in quarters and uses it for note paper. Since we found that out, we often collect it and use it from drawing paper in the preschool. Our rabbi maintains that it is a photocopy of a Chumash and there for does not need genizah treatment and it is better to reuse it anyway. Formal recycling is limited up here, so I imagine that after it is used for note paper or art paper, most of the time it then goes in the garbage. (from Carrie)