Talk:Genizah

Working on photo

I will attempt to take a photograph of the genizah at my synagogue the next time I can get there. It should be in the next week or two. I'm not 100% sure they have one, but there's a very good possibility, so I'll try. Tuvok[^T@lk/_{Improve me}] 04:51, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Needless to say, I couldn't find one. They actually didn't know what a genizah even is. Hmm... Tuvok[^T@lk/_Improve] 08:30, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Masada photo

It seems to me highly unlikely that this would be a (second) genizah at Masada. I have written to user Daniel Ventura who has taken it and written the caption and I'm waiting for his reply. He's been absent from Commons for a year now, so an answer might not be forthcoming.

The known & much more likely genizah looks nothing like that (see here on this older website). Bare field stones. This recent photo looks more like a cistern with hydraulic plaster. Maybe that ledge made somebody believe that manuscripts were once deposited there. But the identification of a 2nd genizah at Masada would make huge waves, and this hasn't.

I suggest removing the unsupported image for now. Arminden (talk) 10:33, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Removed.

Here it is:

A possible geniza at Masada, eastern Israel

Arminden (talk) 10:35, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Here it is, with the proper caption: "water cistern". I guess it's the one near the Water Gate, with this being the section whose ceiling hasn't collpased yet. Not far from the presumed synagogue, but a genizah?! If I'm right, it's also huge, you can deposit there ten entire city libraries. Arminden (talk) 10:41, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Yep. That's the one. Forget it. Some tour guide smoked the wrong thing. Arminden (talk) 10:44, 16 September 2024 (UTC)