Jerusalem Stone Mezuzah Case

Jerusalem Stone Mezuzah Case

How to Affix a Mezuzah

How to Affix a Mezuzah

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Judaica Store, Denver Colorado
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600 South Holly Street Suite 103
Denver, Colorado 80246
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Kosher Mezuzah

For the Mezuzah to be Kosher, it must meet the following criteria:

• The Mezuzah Case must contain a scroll
• The scroll must be hand written by a certified God fearing scribe (Sofer) with special black ink and quill on one piece of specially prepared and scored parchment
• The scroll may not contain mistakes or additions to its text. Any mistake, even one letter that was written incorrectly, would render the scroll, and the Mezuzah invalid (pasul).
• The Mezuzah must be affixed to the right side doorpost on at a 45 degree angle
• A small ceremony, called Channukat Ha-Bayit (dedication of the house) was done.
• The Bibical source of the mitzvah of mezuzah is found twice in Deuteronomy (Devarim), chapter 6, in the paragraph of Shema Yisroel (4-9) and Chapter 9, in the paragragh of Vehaya Im Shamoa (13-21). The Torah states in both paragraphs:
  

And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates. Deuteronomy, 6:9

Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your resources. And these things that I command you today shall be upon your heart. And you shall teach them to your children, and you shall speak of them when you sit in your house and when you go on the way, when you lie down and when you rise up. And you shall bind them as a sign upon your arm and they shall be an ornament between your eyes. And you shall write them upon the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Deuteronomy, 11:13-21

And it will be that if you hearken to my commandments that I command you today, to love the Lord, your God, and to serve him with all your hearts and all your souls. And I will place rain for your land in its proper time, the early and the late rains, that you may gather in your grain, your wine, and your oil. And I will provide grass in your field for your cattle, and you will eat and you will be satisfied. Watch yourselves, lest your heart be seduced and you turn astray and serve other gods, and prostrate yourselves to them. And the wrath of God will be upon you, and he will restrain the heaven and there will be no rain, and the ground will not yield its produce, and you will be lost quickly from upon the good land that God gives you. And you shall place these words of mine on your hearts and on your souls, and you shall bind them as a sign upon your arms and they shall be ornaments between your eyes. And you shall teach them to your children to discuss them, when you sit in your house and when you go on the way, and when you lie down and when rise up. And you shall write them upon the doorposts of your house and upon your gates, in order to prolong your days and the days of your children upon the good land that God swore to your fathers to give them, like the days of Heaven over earth.