A mezuzah is usually attached in the doorpost of a jewish home.
Jewish mezuzah on door.
Each mezuzah can be purchased by itself or with a kosher mezuzah scroll.
It also contains a small parchment scroll wherein the shema prayers are handwritten in the hebrew language by a scribe.
The concept of a mezuzah comes from the torah where we read and you shall inscribe them on the doorposts mezuzot of your house and on your gates deuteronomy 6 9 11 20.
Traditional jewish practice about mezuzot is that a mezuzah should be affixed to every door in a house except for the bathroom even if there are many rooms in a house and even if the room has more than one door.
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The hebrew word mezuzah means doorpost according to tradition the mezuzah is to be affixed to the doorpost at the entrance to a jewish home as well as at the entrance to each of the interior rooms except for bathrooms.
As long as a door can be used as an entrance and exit a mezuzah should be affixed to the doorpost.
It is the handwritten parchment paper that is the mezuzah.
Although it is common to refer to the decorative case that holds the parchment as the mezuzah it is actually called a mezuzah case.
A mezuzah should be fixed to the doorpost of ever living space in the house not just the entrance door.
In internal doorways it is the doorpost to the right of a person entering in the direction towards which the door opens.
For the front door the right doorpost is the doorpost to the right of the person entering from the street.
Any room that has two doorposts and an overhead lintel requires a mezuzah so one should check with a rabbi.
If you select the option to add the scroll we will ship it already inserted and ready to affix to your door.
Hear o israel the lord is our god the lord is one.
It is crucial for the jews home to have a hanging mezuzah scroll at the doorpost because it will determine that a jew.
Enjoy our large collection of mezuzahs.
A mezuzah is a small box that is placed on the right doorpost of jewish homes.
Bathrooms closets laundry room boiler room and so forth however do not require a mezuzah.
Inside the box is a parchment scroll with verses from the torah inscribed on it including the shema prayer deuteronomy 6 4 9 11 13 21.
Since the jewish people received the torah on mount sinai jews have been placing a mezuzah parchment surrounded by a case on their door posts.