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<font size=3>Rav Moshe Shternbuch: Can You Throw Newspapers With Torah
Content Into The Garbage?<br><br>
Rav Moshe Shternbuch points out (1:553) that the Rambam (Yesodei HaTorah
6:8) distinguishes between Kisvei Kodesh meaning klafim of tanach that
must be buried and seforim that do not fall into the category of Kisvei
Kodesh which do need to be buried but it is forbidden to destroy them or
burn them. If you destroy them you get Malkus D'Rabanan (Mardus).
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To be Melamed Z'chus on people who throw newspapers with Torah content in
the garbage he makes two points. Firstly, printed materials technically
have no kedusha and secondly, since these newspapers are made to be
thrown out they never become kadosh. <br><br>
Although Rav Shternbuch himself buries any papers with any kind of torah
content, he paskens that one should wrap it in a bag or another paper
before throwing out. That would be okay considering the fact that it is
printed and meant to be erased. Furthermore it is best not to place it in
the garbage can with the rest of the garbage but rather in separate bin.
He ends by saying that V'Hamachmir Tovoi Alav Bracha. <br>
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