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Genizah: A Refusal to Forget

Genizah: A Refusal to Forget20 Aug7 min

<p>What if one of Judaism’s greatest survival tools is simply refusing to throw things away? </p><p>In this episode, host Shai Davidai explores the Cairo Genizah and the surprisingly powerful idea behind it: preserving a civilization not by deciding what matters, but by making forgetting harder. </p><p>A story about memory, inheritance, and how generations of Jews protected the future by holding on to the past.</p>