Talk:Mezuzah

message: I want to remove the picture of the mezuza scroll and replace it with one of the mezuza case. The scroll contains the 4 letter name of Hashem, and I would much prefer to have something else.Gavhathehunchback 21:03, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture

message: I changed some pretty important things in this article...for starters, "mezuza" doesn't refer to the parchment, it refers to the case, and originally (and still today in Hebrew) the doorpost.  Second, the text is written on parchment, not on paper...in fact if it's written on paper it is pasul.  The rest of what I did was primarily just a bit of reorganization and tidying up.  TShilo12 07:28, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  overhaul... 

message: I added a section on removing mezuzot and expanded the section on affixing them significantly. Any comments? Karimarie 22:13, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems fine to me, what are your sources? Jon513 17:38, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: To Be a Jew by Rabbi Hayim Halevy Donin.  Kari Hazzard (talk | contrib) 20:27, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expansion 

message: because of huge empty space created by template... is that because of the hebrew........... - Abscissa 04:05, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article looks silly... 

message: Is there a reason why the vowel points were omitted on the word "מזוזה" in the blessing?  Richwales 07:02, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vowel-pointing in the blessing 

message: A stairwell is not a room and has no doorpost for a mezuzah. The bit about the utility closet also sounds stupid. In fact, writing such things makes the whole custom sound ridiculous. 
--Gilabrand 18:17, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Utility closets that measure 2m x 2m do require mezuzot.  So do wardrobes, walk-in pantries, etc, so long as they're big enough to count as rooms.  Zsero 00:41, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  on stairwells and utility closets 

message: Concerning the sentence in the opening paragraph:
 Many families place a mezuzah only on the front door, but observant Jews fix 
 one on every  doorway in the home apart from bathrooms, and closets too small
 to qualify as rooms.
I am troubled by the differentiation between observant and non.  As I understood it, it was the practice of some Reform and others to only place them in the front doorway, but the phrasing would classify them as non-observant.  Are we sure this is the best way to state this?  Can anyone suggest a better alternative?  --Reverend Loki 23:30, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The people who do this are by definition not observant.  They surely wouldn't dispute that.  Nobody claims that the law only requires a mezuzah on the front door; the only question is whether someone cares to keep the law.  That's not POV, it's objective fact.  Zsero 02:27, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question about wording 

message: I've noticed mezuzahs on the doorposts to professional offices.  Should this be added? Dogru144 20:39, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Professional offices

message: Would it be OK to add an external links section so that others can include links to websites that don't just provide "reading material" but videos, images, etc?
Thanks - --Itsabouttime (talk) 07:34, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Links Section OK? 

message: Could somebody add what makes the Mezuzah kosher?  Could they also clarify what makes the Klaf kosher, or not kosher?  Looking thru the online catalogs,I've noticed a number of stores have disclaimers stating that their Mezuzah's are not kosher. One or two had similar disclaimers about their klaf's. jonathon (talk) 19:40, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the article has been made clear enough, that the words "kosher" or "valid" here mean according to halakha, traditional Jewish law. As with any part of Jewish law, that involves a lot of different details. MikeR613 (talk) 14:38, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kosher 

message: The page lacks content about the practice of wearing a mezuzah on a chain around one's neck. In this fashion, would it be considered an amulet? Is this in any way forbidden and considered a desecration? Is it acceptable in some circumstances or communities? Is a mezuzah "decommissioned" from its primary purpose when used as an amulet (קמיע)? For example, I've read archival testimony of a Greek Jewish couple who attached a "miniature mezuzah" to their infant son's diaper when the family fled Salonika during WWII. -- Deborahjay (talk) 12:07, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, this is a practice which should be added to the article. I don't know the details of the custom, but I know that as a boy on Long Island in the 1960's, I was one of a number of children at the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County who wore a tiny mezuzah as a necklace.  It had been given to me as a brit milah gift.  --Eliyahu S Talk 02:36, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Worn as a pendant (serving as an amulet?) 

message: Is there any information available on the history of the mezuzah? Does it appear in historical writings and or archaeological sites? Is there an evolution as to style and use?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.162.77.10 (talk) 19:26, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: In Europe, many Christians think the muzuzah is a declaration of the jewish plot for world rule, because the parchment inside does contain a written wish that YHWH erase all the goyim (people made of dust and without soul = all non-jewish people) and grant their houses, lands and animals to the chosen nation. 87.97.106.18 (talk) 14:25, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you have a verifiable, reliable source for the above claim (which, by the way, is not true as far as I am aware)?  — Richwales 17:03, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversy and conspiracy section missing! 

message: I've removed the sentence "Some Jews touch their Mezuzah when entering and leaving the room" from the Affixing the mezuzah section for the following reasons:
1. The statement was unsourced and has had a citation needed tag since September.
2. After some changes when it was originally added to the page it has ended up in between a sentence describing that a specific blessing is recited before affixing the mezuzah and the blessing itself.
3.  It doesn't really have anything to do with affixing the mezuzah, which is the topic of the section.  Maybe it would fit better in a (new) section about traditions concerning the mezuzah?  Wolfhound668 (talk) 15:57, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed sentence from 'Affixing the mezuzah' section 

message: What's about the samaritan and karaite mezuzot?! They differ from the jewish ones. This aritcle shows only the jewish position. Informationskampagne (talk) 15:20, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Samaritan/Karaite Mezuzot 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: "Mezuzah Info Center" appears to be a commercial site. Perhaps it would be better to substitute another site. Mcljlm (talk) 18:22, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with you that this is nothing but a commercial site. I've removed the link and also a tagged dead link that was below it.Wolfhound668 (talk) 18:04, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bibliography 

message: For a Jewish prayer used in a Jewish context, a decidedly Christian translation of Deuteronomy like the American Standard Version is unhelpful. Both this article and the one on the Shema itself generally follow the Jewish Publication Society of America Version (aka JPS 1917), which is reproduced at Mechon-Mamre.org. I have thus restored the lead to the same translation. Since it's linked immediately before the quote is given, I don't think a separate footnote is needed; if that's thought necessary, we can easily add one. Huon (talk) 22:08, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation of Biblical texts into English 

message: I've made a small correction to the wording of the Additional inscriptions section. It used to say that the Sefardi custom prohibits the phrase כוזו etc. According to the sources quoted, that is incorrect - they merely do not say to do it. What they prohibit, as the quote included says, is any other writing on the inside of the mezuzah. MikeR613 (talk) 14:33, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Writing on the back of mezuzah