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7. Rings with pasukim 8. How to dispose of WEB torah 9. Tefilin on Shabbos?
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DAF DISCUSSIONS - SHABBOS 61

Y.H. Winning asked:

(a) i am wondering -does this mean that one has to be gonez ONLY items with shem hashem itself -or even other psukim without shem hashem ?

(b) what about general divrei torah ?

(c) I ask this becasue there are alot of english language jewish newspapers that have buried in them [somewhere in the middle or back] divrei torah on parsha or columns or generala articles about torah issues ?do these need gnizah ?is one required to go searching for them in every paper to cut them out before throwing them away [a major tircha -some of these papaers are over 100p gs EACH!]

thank you.

yh winning, ny

Rabbi Yisroel Pesach Feinhandler replies:

(a) It includes also pesukim since they too have kedusha.

(b) It has the same din since it also has kedusha.

(c) If it is hard for you, you can rely upon the psak of Harav Vauzner who says that you are allowed to wrap up the papers in a plastic bag and put them into the regular garbage. His reasoning might be that nowadays we have offset printing and not the old printing that was engraved into the paper. Also it may be batel since the majority is not Torah. Also it does not get ruined immediately.

Rabbi Yisroel Pesach Feinhandler

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