could I get an opinion?

[A. Joseph Ross]

On 27 Jul 2008 at 9:53, Sid Schweiger wrote:

> I have no idea what his intent was, but IIRC the custom is that all
> prayers inserted into the Wall are considered private communications
> between the person and G-d.  Yes, they are regularly removed, but the
> messags are not read and are burned, the same thing that happens to
> damaged Torahs, Megillot and other sacred texts (the significance
> being that fire rises upward from the item being consumed, symbolizing
> its return to G-d).  

I thought they were buried.

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