a man with one watch knows what time it is

[cellio]

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.

Comments

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

What do you eventually do with the papers with the divine name? Do you burn them, ritually, like one would a retired flag?

[richardf8]

What movement are you in? The CCAR released a responsum with some bearing on this. See http://data.ccarnet.org/cgi-bin/respdisp.pl?file=1&year=5762.

[lucretia-borgia.livejournal.com]

While our rabbi emeritus holds that even notes not containing the divine name but which I take in a Torah-learning class should be genizah'd, our new rabbi holds that photocopied sheets even containing yud-kei-vav-kei (not just yud-yud or similar) may be recycled as long as it's done respectfully, i.e. they don't go in with rotting food or suchlike.
Siddurim still get genizah'd, though. That's two Ortho opinions, the latter being a more strict constructionist when it comes to halacha.

[http://users.livejournal.com/merle_/]

So now I have another piece of paper that I can't recycle because it contains the divine name

Huh. I did not know of that restriction. That sounds tricky, and susceptible to a mild physical DOS attack (I keep shoving sheets of paper under your door that you can't get rid of).

Does it apply to the name as presented in any form of media? I don't think many people would deluge you with stone tablets or metal sculptures, but what if the name is in electronic format?