I’m not
an observant Jew but the Gniza mitzvah in which we are commanded to bury holy text when we’re done using it is very exciting to me Once in an abandoned building in front of the central bus station in West Jerusalem thousands of books Bibles, Talmud, Mishna laid on the floor as beds to homeless people The building used to be a Beit-Midrash once My friend Yoram showed it to me and I would come tear the book of Ecclesiastes out of old Bible books and make all sorts of art with them instead of Gniza Ecclesiastes text glued on an 18th century Jewish Musar (morals) book Mesilat Yesharim (path of the righteous) by Rabbi Moshe Chaim Lutzato - 1Meaningless! Meaningless! says the Teacher. 2 Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless. 3 What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun? 4 Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.
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