Q. I'm cleaning out my room and I found a bunch of parsha sheets in English that I had collected on my desk over the weeks. Am I allowed to put these with the regular recycling or do I have to put them in genizah. The parsha sheets are specifically the one put out by lubavitch and the translation of Shabbat b'Shabbato. I also have a couple booklets put out by Yeshiva University for the Holidays.
A. Shevet Halevy (Y.D. 162,2) writes that dedicated sections of Divrei Torah written in newspapers, whether published in Hebrew or English, require genizah.
Ginzei Hakodesh (Ch. 14) quotes different opinions expressed by recent Poiskim in regards to parsha sheets and the like.
Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit"a opinion is, that if it is a one time use publication and it is not normally stored or saved, one can if in need, dispose of it by inserting it inside a bag and placing it in the recyclables. Booklets, however, that are more permanent, should be send to the Genizah.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit"a.
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