(JTA) — It’s affixed upon the doorpost. It’s wooden, thin and rectangular, but with rounded corners. It’s meant to fulfill a biblical commandment. And it bears a verse from the Gospel of John about ...
(JTA) — It’s affixed upon the doorpost. It’s wooden, thin and rectangular, but with rounded corners. It’s meant to fulfill a biblical commandment. And it bears a verse from the Gospel of John about ...
The Maastricht University student discovered the damage to his mezuzah, an object containing scripture on parchment that Jews affix to their doorframes. A swastika was carved into the doorframe of a ...
Thou shalt not spread germs. Mezuzahs — prayer-filled boxes in doorframes that religious Jews touch upon entering a room — do not transmit viruses, says a group of doctors at Maimonides Medical Center ...
A mezuzah on a doorpost instantly shows you one thing: that home is a Jewish one. One of Judaism’s best-known icons, the mezuzah plays a significant role in Jewish superstition as well as halacha.
A mezuzah is more than a way to mark the front door of a Jewish household. This special parchment, contained in a decorative case, contains the Hebrew verse for the Shema Yisrael prayer. The beginning ...
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