Podcast Episode

Genizah: A Refusal to Forget

Pragmatic Judaism··28 August 2026·7 min

About this episode

What if one of Judaism’s greatest survival tools is simply refusing to throw things away? 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. A story about memory, inheritance, and how generations of Jews protected the future by holding on to the past.