10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MEZUZAH»
Discover the use of
mezuzah in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
mezuzah and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Shema in the
Mezuzah: Listening to Each Other
Grandma tells Annie a story to explain how, a long time ago, a wise rabbi settled an argument between two groups of townspeople who could not agree on how to hang a mezuzah.
Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, 2012
Noah has not gotten a good night's sleep since moving from a noisy apartment in the city to a quiet house in the suburbs, but that changes after his parents invite former neighbors to celebrate the dedication of their home as a Jewish home.
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The
Mezuzah in the Madonna's Foot: Marranos and Other Secret ...
The author, who was given sanctuary in Spain for two years during WWII in the time of the Holocaust, offers a fascinating chronicle of 500 years of Jewish life in Spain, capturing both the sweep of history and very personal meaning of ...
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Mezuzah: a comprehensive guide
Mezuzah - A Comprehensive Guide's comprehensive approach covers the full gamut of all that is related to Mezuzuah - philosophical motifs and implications, types of parchment , method of writing, the wheres, whens and how of its affixing, ...
A mezuzah must be written in order. This means that if a sofer writes a word
wrongly and only discovers it after having written further, he may not simply go
back and correct that word. If he did so, that word would have been written after
the ...
What is a mezuzah? For all Jewish families home is a very special place. It is
there, rather than in a synagogue, that the most important worship of God takes
place. Home is where Jewish parents love and teach their children the traditions
of ...
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The Concise Code of Jewish Law: Compiled from Kitzur Shulḥan ...
residence,9 does not require a mezuzah. A temporary residence, such as a
sukkah during the festival of Sukkot, or booths erected for temporary use, do not
require a mezuzah. However, stores that are permanently occupied and filled
with ...
1 To increase the pupils' knowledge of two symbols which they have already met
in previous books - the mezuzah and the tallit. 2 To link the mezuzah with the
Torah and the Shetna. 3 To explain why the mezuzah is nailed to almost every ...
Michael Keene, Jan Keene, 1997
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A Guide to Jewish Religious Practice
The Mezuzah (literally: "doorpost") is therefore one of the mitswot that serve as
reminders. Thus the Talmud says: "He who has Tefilin on his head and arm,
Tsitsit on his garment, and a Mezuzah on his door will surely not sin" (B. Men.
43b).
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American Sanctuary: Understanding Sacred Spaces
There are three main aspects to fulfilling the commandment of mezuzah: your
mezuzah scroll must be written on parchment by a scribe, the scroll must be
inspected twice every seven years to ensure that it is legible and undamaged,
and it ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MEZUZAH»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
mezuzah is used in the context of the following news items.
World's Biggest Mezuzah Submitted to Guinness World Records
An Israeli designer may have recently unveiled the world's largest mezuzah, a casing with parchment bearing the Shema prayer that is affixed ... «Arutz Sheva, Jul 15»
"ARTillery" at Mesa Contemporary Arts Doesn't Go Far Enough with …
Al Farrow's Mezuzah #14 (2011, 50-caliber machine gun bullet, steel, kosher parchment with hand-rendered Hebrew text) is especially ... «Phoenix New Times, Jul 15»
Philo- Semitic Japanese choir entertains
Rabbi Tokayer, in his remarks, remembered affixing the mezuzah on the doorpost of Beit Shalom when it was first erected. In addition, in 1995, ... «San Diego Jewish World, Jul 15»
Rabbinical students share Amarillo Jewish experience
“We also carry Jewish religious articles like tefillin and the mezuzah.” Tefillin, which is a ritual sign of remembrance within the Jewish faith, are a ... «Amarillo.com, Jul 15»
More on Pasul Mezuzos on IDF Bases
... the matter is ignored by the military so the IDF Rabbinate addressed it in a sefer addressing the laws of mezuzah but sections speaking of the ... «Yeshiva World News, Jul 15»
Tents are mounted
They kiss the mezuzah, talk about Shabbat plans, and ask me when I'm going to get married already. They always help unpacking the bus and ... «San Diego Jewish Journal, Jul 15»
New Organization Intends to Provide Religious Services in …
It is added services will be comprehensive, and in addition to items listed earlier will be shiurim, affixing a mezuzah, taking part in a levaya, ... «Yeshiva World News, Jul 15»
Apples, Oranges and Nephites
“Good Heavens, Dr. Jones, look there – over the carvings of the severed heads, at the doorway of the jaguar temple! Isn't that a mezuzah? «Patheos, Jul 15»
Pray ball! Jewish heritage night at Giants, A's
A recap of recent souvenir items: menorah (2011), yarmulke (2012), dreidel (2013) and mezuzah (2014). Pregame party: In Seals Plaza ... «Jweekly.com, Jul 15»
Secret message
Rabbi Leibel Schapiro was the special speaker at a Chabad of Arizona farbrengen on June 28. Here, Schapiro shows how he used a mezuzah ... «Jewish News of Greater Phoenix, Jul 15»
