The Fabro~Rivera Christian Genizot Project

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Christopher White: Francis defines the elderly as "memory keepers."

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AMOS MUZYAD YAQOOB KAIROUZ: Show me my way in life and I will build you a shrine.

Virginia Millano Evangelista Fabro~Rivera wrote Hand~Written notes and left them everywhere in the House at 24 Danville Road in Spring Valley, New York. I've compiled two Christian Genizot [set aside Recycling Bins, basically]: one Genizah contains Her Hand~Written Christian Notes and another Genizah contains her hand~written Secular writing. They are currently in a Storage Unit in Pasco County, Florida.

MISSION STATEMENT: Establish The Fabro~Rivera Christian Genizot Project to revive Christian Genizot Scholarship. Our Personal Goals shall be achieved by organically locating the Genizah vestiges and then Carefully archiving, labeling, transcribing, translating, rendering Fragmented Manuscripts and Portfolios into Digital Format (i.e., photographing images of Notes), as well as publishing Saved Written Documents online, where applicable. This Wealth of Memorial Information is being uploaded to multiple Internet Platforms on the World Wide Web, in a Multidisciplinary Fashion, making it readily available to Family, Friends, artists, and scholars globally.

The Immortal Literary Body of the Extended Family, originating from all three Monotheistic Religions ~ Islam, Judaism, and Christianity ~ besides Eastern Abrahamic Faiths, magnifies a primordial light on the delicate balancing Acts of the Mundane Home Life Salted with Sacred Rituals. I believe, the task of Immortalization is a worthy endeavor.

Q: What does it mean to be an archivist for someone's estate?

A: It means preserving and organizing the contents of the estate so that it's protected and also rendered accessible in some way to those from the outside— researchers or even if it's just the family or the trust or whoever.

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RICHARD HIRSH: A final act before one begins to attend to cleaning out a home might be to designate one box as a genizah. A genizah is a place where worn-out ritual objects, as well as any piece of paper on which the four-letter Hebrew name of God is found, can be placed for sacred storage and/or eventual burial. Perhaps we only want them preserved for children and grandchildren, in recognition of how few objects actually survive the march of the generations. Stories, memories and customs are often passed down, but how many people can hold in their hands actual objects that their grandparents and great-grandparents held, used, displayed in their home? Having a genizah box helps us set aside objects whose sanctity lies simply in their having been a part of our family and its story. 

We might pray to act respectfully toward the possessions of the deceased as she or he would have wanted us to, and ask forgiveness in advance for any inadvertent transgressions. 

We might then affirm the importance of perpetuating acts of generosity in the name of the deceased, and determine what would be donated to charity as an act of tzedakah on behalf of one who can no longer contribute.

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MJL: The general rule is that anything dealing with sacred subjects should be placed in a genizah, rather than thrown out. you are welcome to bury your household genizah in your backyard, as long as it is done respectfully.

"The Talmud (Tractate Shabbat 115a) directs that holy writings in other than the Hebrew language require genizah, that is, preservation."

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Nora Ephron lived by one simple motto: "Everything is Copy." It's a saying that the iconic director, screenwriter and essayist learned from her screenwriter mother. Whatever happened to you in your life, shitty or spectacular, intimate or embarrassing, was material to be used in your writing. He says it was reminiscent of the scene at the deathbed of Ephron's mother Phoebe: "When Phoebe was on her deathbed, she told my mother, 'Take notes.'" She did. Now Bernstein has written and directed Everything Is Copy, a biographical documentary-cum-celebration of his mother's life and work that airs on HBO this spring. "She had died, and in some ways, I wasn't ready to let go. Doing the film enabled me, in some way, to keep having a relationship with her, keep talking to her every day and keep watching her. It's always hard writing a book or doing a movie, but the hardest thing in a certain way was letting go of it. The entire time she was up there on the monitor, she was kind of alive."

DAVID GEFFEN: Fifty years ago, I began saving all types of items, mostly documents. Busy with my research, I have also spotted a few examples of documents: letters, bills, and so on, belonging to notable individuals. If it is not possible to physically save such items, you can just photograph them with your phone.

Exuberant about this form of preservation, I taught myself how to build archival collections. How fortunate I have been to have had the opportunity to preserve the building blocks of "real life."